ACCRA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The government of Ghana has decided to pursue international arbitration to resolve its maritime boundary dispute with its eastern neighbor, Togo, a statement from the Presidency said Friday.
The statement said the decision follows failed attempts at resolving the matter for the past eight years.
"The government of Ghana has served the government of Togo with notice of its decision that the maritime boundary between Ghana and Togo be delimited by recourse to international arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," the statement said.
Similarly, from 2010 to 2017, Ghana and its western neighbor Cote d'Ivoire had a maritime boundary dispute over the border separating the two nations, which was resolved by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in September 2017. ■