{"id":216955,"date":"2014-09-23T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/arbitration-in-ghana-ivory-coast-maritime-boundary-dispute-will-favour-ghana-a-g\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:06:00","slug":"arbitration-in-ghana-ivory-coast-maritime-boundary-dispute-will-favour-ghana-a-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/09\/23\/arbitration-in-ghana-ivory-coast-maritime-boundary-dispute-will-favour-ghana-a-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitration in Ghana-Ivory Coast maritime boundary dispute will favour Ghana &#8211; A-G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/09\/7289240x_mg_m52tk87jje_1491686215831_6857125867830.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NTcwNzEz';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p>The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice has assured that any award from the international tribunal arbitrating the maritime boundary dispute Ghana and Ivory Coast will certainly favour Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, who is leading a crack team of local \u00a0lawyers, backed by international maritime law experts, believes the law is on Ghana&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>But the country is not leaving anything to chance, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana initiated arbitration proceeding under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) after years of negotiations failed to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving failed to reach a settlement after successive negotiations and exchange of views over an extended period of time, Ghana has elected to submit the dispute concerning the determination of each maritime boundary with Cote d&#8217;Ivoire to the arbitral procedure provided for under Annex VII of UNCLOS,\u201d Ghana&#8217;s statement of claim noted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the matter at a press conference Tuesday, the Attorney-General said government \u201cregards the arbitration as a peaceful means to resolve the long-standing and costly dispute between the two neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More soon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}