La Paz, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian government stated that it will maintain its efforts to achieve a sovereign corridor to the Pacific Ocean, beyond the determinations of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) on its lawsuit against Chile.
Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, reiterated his country's position and said that regardless of the ICJ ruling, the government will insist on having a sovereign access to the sea.

"We will continue unswervingly working to restore this right of the Bolivian people for a sovereign access to the Pacific coast," Quintana told the press four days before the judgment of the referred court in front of Chileâ�Ös challenge, trying to ignore the jurisdiction of it in the maritime dispute between the two countries.

As Bolivians hope The Hagueâ�Ös decision with greater optimism, he said and admitted it has the greatest hope that the ICJ makes the right determination, which must be conformed to the need to begin to solve a one hundred-year-old injustice.

"If the decision was negative, we do not believe that The Hague depletes our demands," said Quintana, who emphasized in "exploring other options. That is, we have no mortgaged all our legal arsenal in the Court, we have other options and we will work."

Bolivia emerged as a republic in 1825 with coasts to the Pacific Ocean, but a Chilean invasion, in February 1879, snatched it about 400 linear kilometers of coastline and 120,000 square kilometers of territories, rich in minerals.