NAIROBI ( Halbeeg News) – Kenya government has announced its alternative method to deal with Somalia over the maritime border dispute.
The East Africa nation said it has sought the intervention of the United Nations in the escalating diplomatic raw with its neighboring country, Somalia.
According to Kenyan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Monica Juma stated that her country wrote to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the maritime border dispute with Somalia.
According to an article published Kenya, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is said to have informally mentioned the raging dispute to the 15-member UNSC as a possible threat to peace and stability in the region.
“Two weeks ago, the issue (maritime border dispute), was signaled by UN Secretary-General to the Security Council as a potential threat to peace and regional security,” Juma said.
Kenya and Somalia had had a protracted dispute over a maritime boundary.
In February this year, Kenya summoned its ambassador to Somalia, saying it was protesting a decision by the Mogadishu government to auction oil and gas exploration blocks at the center of a maritime territorial dispute in the Indian Ocean, a move denied by the Somali government.
In 2014 Somalia sued Kenya at the International Court of Justice.
Late 2017, Somalia won its first bid to resolve a case over a maritime dispute before the ICJ.
Judges at the ICJ dismissed claims fronted by Kenya’s lawyers that there exists an alternative method of resolving the matter.
Somalia wants the court to demarcate the maritime boundary, and to determine the exact geographical coordinates as an extension of its southern borders.
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