The United Nations’ highest court found little to rule on Thursday in a long-running dispute over a small river which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors had mostly resolved their conflict during the 6-year proceedings.
The International Court of Justice spent most of the hour-long hearing announcing the legal claims over the Silala River - a short waterway in the Atacama Desert - were “without object” as both countries now agreed on how the water system should be managed.
