World Court hears Chile vs Bolivia suit on Silala river rights
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Chile requested judges on the World Courtroom on Friday to award it “equitable and cheap” use of the waters of the Silala river, which runs from Bolivia into Chile, within the newest dispute between the South American neighbours.
Bolivia, which argues that Chile is making use of the waters of the Silala with out truthful compensation, is because of reply on Monday. The courtroom, formally generally known as the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, is the United Nations’ courtroom for resolving disputes between states.
Chile agent Ximena Fuentes requested judges to “affirm the fundamental ideas of equitable and cheap utilisation in these occasions of accelerating contemporary water shortage”.
The courtroom is holding two weeks of oral arguments within the case, which started in 2016 following strikes by Bolivia’s then-President Evo Morales to say extra possession rights over the Silala.
In 2018, the courtroom dominated in Chile’s favour in a case introduced by Bolivia looking for that Chile enter into negotiations over granting land-locked Bolivia a hall to the ocean.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Enhancing by Jan Harvey)
