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Assad, The Agent’s Mission
posted (May 17, 2019)

As we’ve been reporting this week, and earlier in this newscast - Assad Shoman has been named the Agent, basically the team captain leading Belize’s legal and diplomatic team going to the ICJ.  He’s the leading authority on all matters having to do with the claim, and, in an interview yesterday, he outlined his responsibilities as agent: 

H.E. Assan Shoman - Belize's Agent at ICJ
"What we have to do is to really manage the case, lead the delegation, deal with the lawyers, brief the lawyers, be briefed by the laws, organize the research - the documentation, all of that. For the case itself, we have I would say, too much time because unfortunately, the special agreement gives too much time. I must tell you that when we're negotiating it, the Guatemalans wanted 2 years for us before they presented, so they wanted to drag this thing out. So all we can do to force them to bring it down the 1 year, but we're hoping somehow, maybe it can go quicker."

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