Bolivia will negotiate with Chile about their maritime dispute
Chile, February 6, 2011
Tomorrow, in La Paz, Bolivia and Chile will hold talks, having as main objective to discuss the maritime dispute. The negotiations remained stalled since 2006, and now Piñera discarded a plan proposed by former president Bachelet to give 28 km of coast to Bolivia.
If negotiations again fail, Bolivia will take the matter to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where Santiago de Chile has another lawsuit, done by Peru, for the sovereignty of boundary waters.
It was also announced that Bolivia will not cease until the maritime area is recovered, area lost in a war with Chile in 1879. The Latin American country is planning to install a port and a small town in the territory that seeks to recover.
A Bolivian government spokesman said “we made clear to Chile that we were not going to discuss sovereignty in the beginning, but we were going to do it till the end. There is a rule in diplomacy: if nothing is agreed, then everything is not agreed”.
But on the other side “Chile is now less open than in times of Bachelet to discuss a solution to the maritime problem of Bolivia. Sebastián Piñera wants to deal with access to the sea through a broker, and not through an enclave”.
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