Weekly Report - 19 July 2012 (WR-12-28)

“These islands are Colombian, they have been Colombian and they will continue being Colombian,” Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said during an official visit to Bolívar cay, south of the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina on 15 July. The visit was designed to reassert Colombian sovereignty over the whole area in the Caribbean Sea as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague is preparing to issue a definitive ruling on Colombia’s maritime and territorial dispute with Nicaragua. The visit also coincided with an unprecedented development in Nicaragua, where a Colombian became the first foreigner ever to be convicted of spying in the country.

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