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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:35:04 -0400
From: Gabriel Trueba <gtrueba@lenti.med.umn.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <ec-charla@mia.lac.net>
Subject: 1995/Jul/Jul 26/world/Peru-Ecuador establish demilitarized border
From: C-reuters@clarinet.com (Reuters)
Subject: Peru-Ecuador establish demilitarized border zone
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WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuter) - Peru and Ecuador have
agreed to establish a demilitarized zone in disputed territory
on their border over which they have fought for years, officials
announced at the end of a Western Hemisphere defense ministers
meeting Wednesday.
``There could hardly be a more significant way to symbolize
the importance of this conference,'' U.S. Defense Secretary
William Perry said after the announcement was made by a senior
foreign ministry official from Brazil.
Sebastiao do Rego Barros of the Brazilian foreign ministry
told the delegates as the first-ever such hemispheric security
meeting ended that Ecuador and Peru had formally agreed to the
demilitarised zone on Tuesday while ongoing talks continue
toward a final settlement of the dispute.
He made the announcement on behalf of the two countries and
Brazil, Argentina, Chile and the United States, four nations
which are helping Peru and Ecuador in the continuing
negotiations.
The large jungle area in a region known as ``Cordillera del
Condor'' has been in dispute since Peru won a war with Ecuador
in 1941. Their armed forces have fought a number of battles in
the area, the latest in January this year only a month after the
Summit of the Americas in Miami.
The Ecuador-Peru rivalry is among several involving Latin
American countries. One aim of the two-day Western Hemisphere
defense ministers meeting that wound up on Wednesday was to
facilitate ways to peacefully settle such disputes.