The Hague – Government – Riesel intervened in politics in support of Colombia

Really considered unprecedented, a representative Riesel Community He intervened before the International Court of Justice on Wednesday morning Hack. The speech was in charge Kent Francis James, Member of the Colombian Security Council in the case with Nicaragua in that High Court.

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The lawyer and a diplomat reiterated to his community that the Caribbean Sea has always represented his home, his refuge and his livelihood.

“Those who follow the faith of the Rijals were baptized in the sea. It is a tomb for the departed and those who do not return.

Kent Francis is a lawyer at the University of James Externado de Colombia. He has also been in politics since 1984.

He is the co-founder of the Broad Claim Movement, a liberal group of island professionals who initially declared themselves against the island’s cultural and environmental degradation and overcrowding.

(What else: ‘Tried to create events that were not in Nicaragua’)

In 1991 he was appointed the first Governor of the Department of San Andres y Providence by President Caesar Caviar; He served until 1992, when Simone Gonzalez Restrepo became the first governor to be elected by popular vote.

He did not win the 2014 Colombian legislative election and was the Senate candidate for the Liberal Party. He was ambassador to Belize between 2003 and 2007 when Ernesto Chamber was ambassador to Jamaica, Colombia. He was also in charge of the diplomatic representation of Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Guyana, as embassies in those countries were closed in 2002.

It should be remembered that Francis James was part of the Riesel team that was appointed many years ago to strengthen the Colombian legal team. Pueblo Riesel.

Court Hack It examines whether Colombia is right in saying that Nicaragua violated international law with the operations of the National Navy in the Caribbean.

It is good to note that this case is not about regional sovereignty or regional maritime. Colombia’s sovereignty over the islands is not in dispute.

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