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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana have reached a resolution on their maritime border dispute. The two countries had a case before the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) pending in Hamburg, however the presidents of the two countries reached a deal before ITLOS could rule.
“We have a deal,” mediator at the talks between the two presidents and former UN secretary general Kofi Anan told Reuters. Anan did not elaborate and officials did not immediately disclose the terms of the agreement. It appeared to have been reached quickly. Cote d’Ivoire’s presidency said President Alassane Ouattara had left Abidjan for the discussions with his Ghanaian counterpart John Dramani Mahama.
Arbitration between the two was commenced by Ghana in 2014 in an effort to resolve a dispute with regard to the maritime boundary between the two countries. Earlier this yearCôte d’Ivoire’s government applied for provisional measures to be have exploration on Ghana’s TEN development stopped until a determination on the boundary was made by ITLOS. The tribunal ruled in late-April on the provisional measures application saying that Ghana could move forward with the development of the TEN project but no drilling could take place until the final ruling on the boundary is determined.
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