New claims from Nicaragua to Colombia in The Hague: Legal and political inconveniences of the Colombian behavior

Abstract

The International Court of Justice has a significant role nowadays for the creation of legal obligations in the international law field. Its effort for putting an end to a historical-territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua did not prosper, and this has brought a new claim against Colombia to declare not only a relevant international legal fact, but also political. This situation reveals the existence of an international justice system which demands certain State behavior, behavior that the Colombian government has not handled with legal and political convenience.