Seabed tribunal opens regional workshop in Kingston
PROTECTION of the environment, maritime delimitation and transfer of technology are some of the issues which will be raised at a three-day regional workshop on the role of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which opened yesterday at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.
In welcoming more than 40 delegates from Caribbean and Latin American countries, Jamaica’s Foreign Minister Anthony Hylton praised the establishment of the tribunal, saying it should provide useful guidance to regional states on the mechanisms available for the settlement of disputes.
“We are confident that this workshop will allow for a rich exchange of views and will serve to broaden the knowledge of all participants in respect of law of the sea related disputes,” Hylton told the opening of the conference.
He said Jamaica had issues regarding maritime demarcation with the Cayman Islands, Haiti, Nicaragua and Honduras and he was eager to set negotiations in train.
“We currently have several pending maritime delimitation negotiations and are eager to be further guided during this workshop on the role ITLOS could play in advancing this process,” Hylton said.