"Bolivia can not claim to review treaties that are more than 100 years of full force," Efe said in an interview with President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, on the request of La Paz to have a sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean. The Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1904 which ended the war between Bolivia and Chile, "set with crystal clarity the boundaries between the two countries and allowed us 106 years of peace," he said.
"Imagine that the world 100 years after the countries would like to override treaties of limits which have been validly concluded. Where would the peace? What would be stability," he asked. Bolivia lost its coastline, 400 kilometers away in the Pacific war with Peru fought against Chile in the late nineteenth century.
Last March, President Evo Morales announced plans to bring its claim to international bodies to achieve a sovereign outlet to the sea for Bolivia, given that they have not advanced in the last five years, initiated bilateral talks with the government of Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). This claim has been conditioned since the last century the links between the two countries, which have no diplomatic relations with the rank of ambassador since 1962, with a brief interlude between 1975 and 1978, when the last attempt failed to find a solution.
Piñera said that "Chile maintains an attitude of dialogue with Bolivia", expressed in the so-called 13-point agenda, "which includes all issues of bilateral interest and whose effectiveness was recognized" by the two countries. "That we will maintain, but with one condition: to respect international treaties and international law.
It seems a very logical condition," he added. Regarding the relationship with Peru, which in 2008 filed a complaint with the Hague Court to modify its favor the maritime border with Chile, Piñera said that the treaties of 1952 and 1954 solved the issue. "So understood Chile, Ecuador and understood so well understood Peru for 50 years," he said.
"Imagine that the world 100 years after the countries would like to override treaties of limits which have been validly concluded. Where would the peace? What would be stability," he asked. Bolivia lost its coastline, 400 kilometers away in the Pacific war with Peru fought against Chile in the late nineteenth century.
Last March, President Evo Morales announced plans to bring its claim to international bodies to achieve a sovereign outlet to the sea for Bolivia, given that they have not advanced in the last five years, initiated bilateral talks with the government of Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). This claim has been conditioned since the last century the links between the two countries, which have no diplomatic relations with the rank of ambassador since 1962, with a brief interlude between 1975 and 1978, when the last attempt failed to find a solution.
Piñera said that "Chile maintains an attitude of dialogue with Bolivia", expressed in the so-called 13-point agenda, "which includes all issues of bilateral interest and whose effectiveness was recognized" by the two countries. "That we will maintain, but with one condition: to respect international treaties and international law.
It seems a very logical condition," he added. Regarding the relationship with Peru, which in 2008 filed a complaint with the Hague Court to modify its favor the maritime border with Chile, Piñera said that the treaties of 1952 and 1954 solved the issue. "So understood Chile, Ecuador and understood so well understood Peru for 50 years," he said.
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