Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire set up a body on Tuesday to implement an international tribunal ruling on their dispute over a border running through multibillion dollar offshore oilfields, they said in a statement.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea last month drew an ocean boundary that seemed to favour Ghana in a dispute with its neighbour Cote D’Ivoire, ruling that Accra had not violated Cote D’Ivoire’s rights in drilling for oil, Reuters reports.
Ghana’s foreign minister Shirley Botchwey said that the two leaders will work together and a joint commission in in place to ensure the ruling is implemented.
The row between the two nations has put a stop to development of Ghana’s $6 billion offshore TEN field run by Tullow oil.
The court ruling did not correspond with either Ghana or Cote D’Ivoire’s claim, but appeared closer to Ghana‘s, and it rejected the former’s attempt to halt development, the report said.
