President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will later today receive a delegation of envoys from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire.
The meeting comes in the wake of the recent judgment by the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries.
The two states are expected to map out a plan on how to put into practice the judgment of the International court.
The President is also expected to make a formal pronouncement on the ITLOS judgment after the meeting.
The Special Chamber in a unanimous decision on Saturday September 23, 2017, ruled that there has not been any violation on the part of Ghana on Côte d’Ivoire’s maritime boundary.
The judgment read by Judge Boualem Bouguetaia, President of the Special Chamber also said “there is no tacit agreement between the Parties to delimit their territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf both within and beyond 200 nm, and rejects Ghana’s claim that Côte d’Ivoire is estopped from objecting to the “customary equidistance boundary”.
Meanwhile, Tullow Oil has said it will work with the “Government of Ghana to put in place the necessary permits to allow the restart of development drilling in the TEN fields by the end of the year.
