MINISTERIO
DE
RELACIONES EXTERIORES
Managua, Nicaragua
THE OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES
TO COMPENSATE NICARAGUA
On the 40th anniversary of the presentation of Nicaragua's Application against the United States on April 9, 1984, Nicaragua takes this opportunity to recall that there is a historical debt with the Nicaraguan people that has not been settle by the United States. It is a obligations clearly established in a final judgment of the highest international judicial authority, the International Court of Justice.
On June 27, 1986, the International Court of Justice issued a judgment ordering the United States of America to indemnify Nicaragua for all damages caused by the military and paramilitary activities against Nicaragua. Despite the fact that the Court recognized that in a situation of armed aggressions such as the one carried out by the United States, no type of reparation –neither economic nor moral- could compensate for the devastation of the country, the loss of human lives and the physical and psychological injuries of the Nicaraguan people, the Court decided that the United States had the legal obligation to financially compensate Nicaragua for all the damages caused.
It is in this context, in which Nicaragua has once again been the victim of aggressions, now euphemistically called sanctions, and victim of an attempted coup, that the people of Nicaragua remember the difficult conditions which under which Nicaragua filed this historical application before the Court International Justice.
Nicaragua takes this opportunity to recall that the judgments of the International Court of Justice are final and binding, and therefore the United States has the legal obligation to comply with the reparations ordered by the judgment of June 27, 1986.
Denis Moncada Colindres
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Republic of Nicaragua