ICJ: hearings end in maritime dispute between Somalia and Kenya
The International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands (illustrative image).
AP - Peter Dejong
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The hearings of the UN International Court of Justice on the dispute between Kenya and Somalia ended on Thursday, March 18.
Somalia presented its final remarks, still in the absence of Kenya, which refused to plead its case.
The matter is now under advisement.
The verdict should be known in a few months.
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The last hearing
before the UN judges
was very short.
It was Mohamed Omar Ibrahim, an adviser to the Somali president, who in just a few minutes presented his government's concluding remarks.
Somalia asks the Court to reject the Kenyan claims of course, to draw a maritime border in accordance with the law between the two countries, to recognize the violation of Somali sovereignty and finally to demand from Kenya that it provide Somalia with all the data which would have been collected on the disputed territory.
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The hearings were then closed without further comment by American judge Joan Donoghue.
The verdict should be known within 4-6 months.
These three afternoons of pleading have allowed Somalia to show the seriousness with which it has taken this matter.
Prestigious experts in international law have presented solid demonstrations on the merits of Somali claims.
The only
thing missing was the Kenyan response
, the boycott of which seems to some observers to be an admission of weakness.
However, the judges indicated that they would take into account, in their verdict, the written documents submitted by Nairobi.
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