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THE HAGUE, March 8, 2011 ( AFP) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Tuesday ordered to Nicaragua and Costa Rica from sending and park security forces and civilians in a territory located in the San Juan border river which both countries claim sovereignty.
"The two parties will not send or keep the disputed territory agents, whether civil, police or security," the court ruled, accepting in part the principal injunction Costa Rica against Nicaragua had requested, after the alleged Nicaraguan military occupation of the river island of portholes, located in San Juan, near its mouth in the Caribbean
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The ICJ also enjoined both neighboring countries to avoid "any action which might aggravate or extend the dispute" border, which strained diplomatic relations.
The injunction favors Costa Rica
visited Costa Rica last November to the highest court of the UN to denounce an alleged invasion of the island Nicaraguan military Portillo and the challenge of environmental damage in the area for the alleged construction of a pipe from Managua.
The Nicaraguan government refused from the start all these allegations.
Pending the ICJ to rule on the substantive claim in a process that can take several years, San Jose demanded the imposition of an injunction against Managua.
The court's decision is final. Both parties pledged to abide by it and relied on it to normalize bilateral relations.
Costa Rica said that Nicaragua could sow "mines" in the disputed territory
SAN JOSE, March 8, 2011 (AFP) - The government of Costa Rica said on Tuesday after the International Court of Justice in The Hague to rule on a dispute with Nicaragua, which will send sappers to the border area in dispute for fear of Nicaraguan military has "planted landmines."
"We will send a unit of sappers have been discarded because they laid mines including outside the conflict area," he told reporters Security Minister Jose Maria Tijerina.
Meanwhile, the Convention Ottawa, signed in December 1997 and came into force on March 1, 1999, prohibited the use of antipersonnel mines in the world.
At the same time that Court in The Hague began hearing to announce his decision, Tijerina said it had ordered the policemen deployed in the border area "be alert, avoid provocations and attacks only clearly defined respond with fire. "
Costa Rica, which has no army since 1948 - moved to the border in October to about 160 policemen with weapons, after denounce a military invasion on the small island .
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