Ghana has served the government of Togo with a notice to proceed to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) following years of dispute over a maritime boundary.
According to a statement issued by the Minister for Government Communications, negotiations in the past eight years have not yielded an agreed outcome.
Felix Kwakye Ofosu noted in his statement on Friday, February 20 that the situation has created tensions between some institutions.
Therefore, the decision by the government of Ghana is to ensure that the continued good relations with its eastern neighbours.
“Ghana has taken this step in order to avoid the escalation of incidents that have created tensions between some of our institutions and to promote an amicable resolution, thereby contributing to the continued good relarions between our two countries,” the statement concluded.
This comes almost a decade when a similar dispute with Ivory Coast was settled by UNCLOS.