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Wednesday February 11, 2015
The Army of Nicaragua on Tuesday February 10 that is managing the purchase of fighter jets to combat drug trafficking in their airspace,
mainly maritime territory granted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague,
which defined the limits in the Caribbean with Colombia.
The inspector of the Nicaraguan Army Brigadier General Adolfo Zepeda told reporters that "to avoid (a) drug trafficking aircraft in our airspace" have "some steps to obtain media interceptors".
Is "purely defensive aviation, no attack aircraft," said the commander.
Zepeda gave those statements when asked about the alleged intentions of the Armed Forces of Colombia,
according to Colombian media,
strengthening of priority airlift capabilities in response to these efforts of Nicaragua in acquiring Mig-29 and other fighters.
"Nicaragua does not constitute threats to arm themselves argue that no country more for an eventual threat of Nicaragua," he said about the general Nicaraguan brigade.
"We are a peaceful country, we respect the international order.
Our differences at international level he brought to the International Court of Justice, and these failures Nicaragua respects, "he argued.
The ICJ in The Hague settled the November 19, 2012 a maritime dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia, and gave the first economic Colombia over an area estimated at 75,000 square kilometers and the Central American country in more than 90,000 square kilometers.
In the same ruling the Court left it to Colombia seven keys of the archipelago of San Andrés,
whose major islands had already been granted to this country in 2007,
although two of the islets were embedded in Central American waters.
The Army of Nicaragua has also considered that needs eight new patrol boats and has visited shipyards, including those of Russia, a former ally during the first Sandinista regime (1979-1990) endowed with Soviet weapons to Nicaraguan military enses.