And the Prime Minister hopes that bi partisan spirit will be on prominent display in a few weeks' time when they take the Maritime Areas Act to the House of Representatives to be repealed. That will set the filing of the case before the ICJ in motion and the PM gave a timeline today:...
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"There is a draft already of the amendment. We just need to dust that off and take it to cabinet. I would have wished to go to the house om Friday, but perhaps it might be better to wait until the following week, just so that as soon as cabinet can give its approval we can send the copy of the draft bill to the opposition and for there to be enough time for them to be able to digest the draft. Now that it is clear that we are going to court, there is no need for the MAA to continue in existence and I imagine that there will be a complete unanimous support in the national assembly for the amendment. So perhaps not next Friday, but maybe the following week either Wednesday or the following Friday. Once that is done, we then notify the ICJ formally of the results of our referendum and the fact that it is on that we are now in a position to submit to the court's jurisdiction. We have a month to do that and thereafter as I understand the clock starts running."
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