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THE HAGUE--The Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament wants the Dutch Government to achieve a blueprint for the Dispute Regulation (“geschillenregeling”) for the Kingdom together with the Dutch Caribbean countries before the end of 2015.

A majority of the Parliament supported the motion of Member of Parliament Roelof van Laar of the Labour Party PvdA urging the Dutch Government to continue efforts to solve the deadlock to establish a Dispute Regulation before the end of this year.

The motion, submitted during the handling of the draft 2016 Kingdom Relations budget last Thursday, called on government to use the May 2015 agreement of the Inter-Parliamentary Consultation for the Kingdom IPKO as a guideline. According to the motion, the establishing of a Dispute Regulation was “crucial for honest and constitutionally correct” relations within the Kingdom.

So far, the governments of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten have not reached an agreement on the contours of this regulation. The source of discussion include the range of the regulation and which institute would serve as the body to handle disputes between the partners in the Kingdom.

The Second Chamber didn’t adopt a second, more far-reaching motion of Gert-Jan Segers of the ChristianUnion, and co-signed by Wassila Hachchi of the Democratic Party D66, Madeleine van Toorenburg (CDA) and Roelof Bisschop of the reformed SGP party.

This motion called for the Dutch Government to send all instructions of the Kingdom Council of Ministers to the Council of State for advice until such time that a Dispute Regulation has been established.

Two motions submitted by Sietse Fritsma of the Party for Freedom PVV to break the relations with the Dutch Caribbean and to throw out the United Nations stipulation so the Netherlands can unilaterally decide to cease the relations with the islands didn’t get the necessary support in the Second Chamber.