Argentina lodged a complaint against Ghana with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea last week, and has demanded that Ghana immediately release the Argentine Navy training vessel ARA LIBERTAD which was detained in October because of claims by US creditors.
A week earlier sailors on board the sailing ship brandished weapons to prevent a docking party from the port from boarding the ship in preparation of moving the Libertad to another, less busy berth.
Argentina lodged a complaint against Ghana with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea last week, and has demanded that Ghana immediately release the Argentine Navy training vessel ARA LIBERTAD which was detained in October because of claims by US creditors.
A week earlier sailors on board the sailing ship brandished weapons to prevent a docking party from the port from boarding the ship in preparation of moving the Libertad to another, less busy berth.
Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman said this week that Ghana had violated international law protecting the immunity of warships. He demanded that Ghana provided indemnity for the damages caused and should publicly apologise.
When detained Libertad had on board a crew including about 200 cadets from a number of countries including South Africa, Namibia and Morocco.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea which sits in Hamburg, Germany is responsible for settling disputes under the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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