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[Zmeselo]

Maritime dispute: Somalia rejects mediation 'offer'

Somalia had sued Kenya at the ICJ back in 2014 seeking to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean.



By ABDULKADIR KHALIF

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/ne ... ew=htmlamp

Tuesday July 25 2023

IN SUMMARY

Somalia says it will not accept mediation over a maritime dispute with Kenya, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided in October 2021.

Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar told a committee of MPs that Somalia was not in any talks with Kenya to resolve the dispute.

The issue had been raised on Saturday by a member of the parliamentary committee who sought clarification from State the Federal Government following reports that Kenya’s President William Ruto had asked the Djiboutian counterpart Omar Ismael Guelleh to help broker the deal.

The minister, instead, says Somalia will abide by the Court’s ruling which mostly re-demarcated the sea border between the two countries.

Regarding the remarks made by Ruto, the maritime dispute was settled by the ICJ and there is no turning point on that. The court verdict favoured Somalia’s sovereignty,

Omar stated.

Perhaps the (discussion on the) implementation on the court ruling is possible, but the ownership (of the sea) isn’t anything on the table.

The minister further dismissed that such mediation is to be performed by Djibouti and there was nothing to talk about.

It came as a surprise to us, and I don’t think there is any dispute between Kenya and Somalia that Djibouti is involved in resolving. I believe the court ruling is final,

the state minister further stated.

According to Somalia, Djibouti has not approached Somalia on this issue yet, but that Mogadishu will decline any such overtures in future.

Neither Kenya nor Djibouti have publicly commented on the claims.

Somalia had sued Kenya at the ICJ back in 2014 seeking to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean.

In October 2021, the Court agreed with most of the claims and dropped others.

The ICJ decisions are binding to the parties and have no option for appeal. However, the two countries will need to actually re-demarcate the boundaries as decided by the Court.

ICJ Ruling in Summary:

-The case concerned 100,000 sq km triangle in the Indian Ocean that is thought to be rich in oil and gas. Further studies to some of the identified blocks however showed the oil was not viable

-Kenya argued the maritime border runs in a line due east from where the two countries meet at the coast.

-Somalia, however, argued in court that [deleted] should follow on in the same direction as their land border.

-Judges rejected Somalia’s demand for reparations after accusing Kenya of violating its territorial integrity

-The 14 Judges sitting at the Hague redrew the boundary, establishing a new demarcation line between the disputed territory. They rejected Kenya’s claim that Somalia had previously agreed to a demarcation.

[Somaliman]

Maritime dispute: Somalia rejects mediation 'offer'

Somalia had sued Kenya at the ICJ back in 2014 seeking to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean.



By ABDULKADIR KHALIF

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/ne ... ew=htmlamp

Tuesday July 25 2023

IN SUMMARY

Somalia says it will not accept mediation over a maritime dispute with Kenya, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided in October 2021.

Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar told a committee of MPs that Somalia was not in any talks with Kenya to resolve the dispute.

The issue had been raised on Saturday by a member of the parliamentary committee who sought clarification from State the Federal Government following reports that Kenya’s President William Ruto had asked the Djiboutian counterpart Omar Ismael Guelleh to help broker the deal.

The minister, instead, says Somalia will abide by the Court’s ruling which mostly re-demarcated the sea border between the two countries.

Regarding the remarks made by Ruto, the maritime dispute was settled by the ICJ and there is no turning point on that. The court verdict favoured Somalia’s sovereignty,

Omar stated.

Perhaps the (discussion on the) implementation on the court ruling is possible, but the ownership (of the sea) isn’t anything on the table.

The minister further dismissed that such mediation is to be performed by Djibouti and there was nothing to talk about.

It came as a surprise to us, and I don’t think there is any dispute between Kenya and Somalia that Djibouti is involved in resolving. I believe the court ruling is final,

the state minister further stated.

According to Somalia, Djibouti has not approached Somalia on this issue yet, but that Mogadishu will decline any such overtures in future.

Neither Kenya nor Djibouti have publicly commented on the claims.

Somalia had sued Kenya at the ICJ back in 2014 seeking to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean.

In October 2021, the Court agreed with most of the claims and dropped others.

The ICJ decisions are binding to the parties and have no option for appeal. However, the two countries will need to actually re-demarcate the boundaries as decided by the Court.

ICJ Ruling in Summary:

-The case concerned 100,000 sq km triangle in the Indian Ocean that is thought to be rich in oil and gas. Further studies to some of the identified blocks however showed the oil was not viable

-Kenya argued the maritime border runs in a line due east from where the two countries meet at the coast.

-Somalia, however, argued in court that [deleted] should follow on in the same direction as their land border.

-Judges rejected Somalia’s demand for reparations after accusing Kenya of violating its territorial integrity

-The 14 Judges sitting at the Hague redrew the boundary, establishing a new demarcation line between the disputed territory. They rejected Kenya’s claim that Somalia had previously agreed to a demarcation.

Somalia had sued Kenya at the ICJ back in 2014 seeking to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean.

Somalia filed an Application instituting proceedings against Kenya with regard to a dispute concerning the delimitation of maritime spaces claimed by both States in the Indian Ocean.

In its Application, Somalia requested the Court “to determine, on the basis of international law, the complete course of the single maritime boundary dividing all the maritime areas appertaining to Somalia and to Kenya in the Indian Ocean, including the continental shelf beyond 200.

Somalia did not seek "to reclaim a part of Kenya’s waters in the Indian Ocean."

The fuc.ker who wrote the article is a Somali Kenyan who's trying to appease Kenya.

[AbyssiniaLady]

Public and private toilet aids infested nappy headed Sharmûta


What you are doing is helping Kenyan amateur journalists to spread fake news and to confuse Somalis, stupid Sharmûta, There is no maritime boundary dispute between Somalia and Kenya, Stop spreading fake news.


This is the internationally recognized maritime boundary between Kenya and Somalia. (Law of the sea boundaries)





The United Nations International Court of Justice has settled Somalia and Kenya's maritime boundary dispute on October 12-2021 in a ruling that is final, binding by international law, without appeal and enforceable

And the two oil exploration companies, Italian Eni Energy company and France's TotalEnergies were kicked out of Somali Sea, long time ago.


The case is closed.

[AbyssiniaLady]

Somali imposter wrote:

The fuc.ker who wrote the article is a Somali Kenyan who's trying to appease Kenya.

Mentally slow scumbag,

Many No Somali kenyans use that name, The tiny useless resourceless Kenyan coastline is mostly populated by Muslims.

[Zmeselo]

Public and private toilet aids infested nappy headed Sharmûta


What you are doing is helping Kenyan amateur journalists to spread fake news and to confuse Somalis, stupid Sharmûta, There is no maritime boundary dispute between Somalia and Kenya, Stop spreading fake news.


This is the internationally recognized maritime boundary between Kenya and Somalia. (Law of the sea boundaries)





The United Nations International Court of Justice has settled Somalia and Kenya's maritime boundary dispute on October 12-2021 in a ruling that is final, binding by international law, without appeal and enforceable

And the two oil exploration companies, Italian Eni Energy company and France's TotalEnergies were kicked out of Somali Sea, long time ago.


The case is closed.

[Somaliman]

Afwerki worshiper,

You asked me why I wasn't talking about Somalia, right!

Haven't you noticed this bit.ch has been doing this in my place and saving me time!

Boy, you have got to find a non Eritrean bt.ch to talk about and promote Eritrea in your place, it makes more credible.

BTW, your Black mental health matters image made me laugh loud, to the extent that my dog is wondering what's happening!

[Zack]

The sea belongs to Somalia and Somalia the Kenyan Bantus have no legs to stand on. Somalia won this case already no need for mediation for this , and if Kenyans want to act big we claim the whole nfd region Kenya’s north eastern as it is a Somali province which was added by the brits to Kenya there is actually no difference between jubbaland and nfd since they were both British colonies once it’s just that the clever by half brits sold jubbaland to the Italians and the British didn’t sell nfd to italy other wise nfd would also be part of Somalia , the border is clear but if they bring this up we claim our whole region back

Dr Zackovich

[Zmeselo]

Is that even English?

I like the way your dog treats you, though.

Afwerki worshiper,

You asked me why I wasn't talking about Somalia, right!

Haven't you noticed this bit.ch has been doing this in my place and saving me time!

Boy, you have got to find a non Eritrean bt.ch to talk about and promote Eritrea in your place, it makes more credible.

BTW, your Black mental health matters image made me laugh loud, to the extent that my dog is wondering what's happening!

[Somaliman]

I slammed her last week and since she has been keeping low profile feeding her threads on Somalia. The bit.ch is now bored of her monologues and was trying to breathe out.

I know she hates me because she knows I'm the only one on this forum who knows who the fuc.k she is, as she has been hiding behind her fake username, knowing perfectly well that she has nothing to do with Abyssinia but just to fool people.

The funny thing is that a couple of little fuc.kers who worship the demon in Asmara believe that this bit.ch and myself are the same person.

BTW, what do mean by "Is that even English?" I didn't get it.