Relations With Nicaragua

Costa Rica and Nicaragua have re-established their bi-national commission to oversee joint efforts to combat cross-border crime as well as development in the common frontier region. The first meeting of the new commission, which has not met since 1997, will be sometime in the Autumn. Relations between the two neighbours have been soured over the years by a long-running dispute over navigation rights in the San Juan river that runs along the border. Discrimination towards the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguan immigrants who come to Costa Rica in search of work has also been a constant source of tensions. There is no indication that the new commission will deal directly with either of these issues.

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