Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean

Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean
Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean
Court	International Court of Justice
Full case name	Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile)
Decided	1 October 2018
Citation(s)	I.C.J. Reports 2015, p. 592
Transcript(s)	Oral proceedings
Case opinions
	The Republic of Chile did not undertake a legal obligation to negotiate a sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean for the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile) was a case at the International Court of Justice. In the case, Bolivia petitioned the Court for a writ of mandamus obligating Chile to negotiate with Bolivia to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it had lost to Chile in 1879 during the War of the Pacific. In 2018, the court rejected Bolivia's arguments, finding that Chile was under no such obligation.