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Maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia

March 16, 2021
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In News: Kenya has said it will not take part in proceedings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its maritime border dispute with Somalia. 

Disputed area

  • Main point of Disagreement – Two neighbours is the direction in which their maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean should extend.
  • Somalia– The sea border should be an extension of the same direction in which their land border runs as it approaches the Indian Ocean, i.e. towards the southeast.
  • Kenya- Territorial southeast border should take a 45 degree turn as it reaches the sea, and then run in a latitudinal direction, i.e. parallel to the equator. 
  • Such an arrangement would be advantageous for Kenya, whose coastline of 536 km is more than 6 times smaller than Somalia’s (3,333 km).
  • The triangular area thus created by the dispute is around 1.6 lakh sq km large.

Importance of  Area

  • Rich marine reserves. 
  • To have oil and gas deposits.

Kenya and Somalia efforts to resolve the dispute

  • Bilateral negotiations to resolve the issue failed, Somalia in 2014 asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to adjudicate. 
  • Kenya resisted, the world court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, based on a 2009 argument between the two neighbours that Kenya said amounted to a commitment to settle the dispute out of court.
  • In February 2017, the ICJ ruled that it did have the right to rule in the case.
  • These hearings never took place, as Kenya successfully applied to have them postponed thrice– the last one being in June 2020, when it cited difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • ICJ rulings are considered binding, although the international tribunal has no powers to ensure enforcement, and many countries are known to ignore its verdicts.

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

  • The ICJ was established in 1945 .
  • The ICJ functions with its seat at The Hague, Netherlands.
  • It has the jurisdiction to settle disputes between countries and examine cases pertaining to violation of human rights.
  • It adjudicates cases according to the tenets of international law and is the judicial arm of the United Nations
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