PRONOUNCEMENT
Faced with the crisis facing the Central American Integration System (SICA), caused by the persistent refusal of certain countries in the region to recognize Nicaragua’s legitimate right to take up the General Secretariat of SICA which corresponds by right and the System’s own institutionality to the people and government of Nicaragua, "without arriving at consensus due to the arbitrary and baseless positions of some delegations, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama and the Dominican Republic" that has been an obstacle to the progress of the integration process.
Likewise, the complaint filed by the Republic of Nicaragua against the Statute of the Central American Court of Justice is based on Central American Community Law and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. As the Government of Nicaragua expressed in its communication to the Acting President of the Court, Dr. Ernesto Salazar Grande, "For 32 years, the Central American Court of Justice has operated with judges exclusively from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, without fulfilling the original purposes of its creation as a regional judicial organ."
This situation contradicts the principles of regional integration, preventing the development of a Court that truly represents all SICA member States on equal terms, with full exercise of their rights and obligations. Nicaragua considers this circumstance as unsustainable and unacceptable, "since this Court is subject to the decisions of the Central American and Caribbean Judicial Council, which is not part of the Central American Integration System (SICA), as well as to decisions of countries that, despite having approved the Statute, have not put into effect their will to join the Central American Court of Justice, or countries that are not part of the Statute."
Therefore, we declare that:
First: We support the position of the people and Government of Nicaragua, which in its communiqué in relation to SICA called on the governments of the region "to assume a responsible position, based on regional regulations and presidential agreements governing the Integration System." In addition, we emphasize that Nicaragua will not cease in its struggle for respect for its sovereignty and national dignity.
Second: We consider it urgent to move towards a more solid integration, leaving behind positions that weaken regional unity. It is time to overcome the mode of "a la carte integration" and work decisively towards the formation of a genuine Community of Nations.
Third: Nicaragua has been one of the countries that has contributed the most to the process of the Central American system and integration, despite the fact that it was formed in 1992, to this day the system is not completely formed, the only countries that are really present in almost all instances are Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, the other countries such as Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Belize have not assumed their full commitment to integration while Nicaragua has always complied with its financial contributions on time.
Fourth: We support the determination made by the people and Government of Nicaragua in their sovereign and irrevocable decision to renounce the Convention of the Statute of the Central American Court of Justice, together with the sovereign arguments duly raised by our government.
Fifth: We make our own the call of the people and Government of Nicaragua to the governments of the region that they assume a responsible position and act on the basis of the Regional Regulations and Agreements of the Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the SICA, engaging once more in the spirit of the Esquipulas Agreements and in concordance with the interests of our peoples.
Sixth: The Nicaraguan Parliamentary Group before the Central American Parliament, together with its people, with the living Latin Americanist spirit of the General of Free Men, Augusto César Sandino, will not decline in its struggle for respect for its Sovereignty and National Dignity.