News:
December 11, 2018
The Chief Director of the Ministry of Energy and head of the Ghanaian Technical negotiating team with Togo on the maritime boundary, Lawrence Apaalse, has called for co-existence between Ghanaians and Togolese as they negotiate.
According to the head of the Ghanaian Technical Negotiating team at the moment there is no maritime boundary between Togo and Ghana.
“Where lays the point that this is my area, the thing is that we are having negotiation, the basic thing we are saying is that whiles having this negotiation we should have things done acceptable under international law”.
He was responding to questions by journalists who wanted to know Ghana’s response to issues raised by the Togolese delegation that the Ghanaian Navy were found in areas of the sea with their neighboring Togolese that had issue with maritime boundary.
Again we should have mutually arranged and agreed point of action as we do not have boundaries, “known to us let us co-exist in the area till the line is drawn let the status quo be till we delimit the boundary”, he lamented.
“Whatever we do should have no impact on the final outcome of the delimitation, this is what various countries had put in place when negotiation is dragging for long”.
As to whether with the various mapping Ghana has it is possible for Ghana to win, “you do not go into the negotiation table and preempt the outcome, not that I cannot answer your question. When hosting your neighbors in your country you have to relax your muscles”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com