Ecuador and Chile share common opinion concerning disputed border with Peru

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SANTIAGO.- Presidential Secretary General José Antonio Viera Gallo recently returned from a visit to Ecuador which was aimed at addressing issues of State modernization and anticorruption. Upon his arrival, Viera Gallo brought attention to the common position shared by Ecuadorian and Chilean governments regarding the validity of border treaties reached in 1952 and 1954, which are currently being disputed by Peru at the Hague International Court.

Viera Gallo read a statement this morning from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating, “the Chilean government’s claim over the 1954 special territory concerns valid international treaties that legally define the bi-national maritime border (preferring this term to the border between Ecuador and Peru)”.

“I don’t believe we can think of this as support (from Ecuador).  I believe that what we have is a common position regarding the treaties between Ecuador, Chile and Peru” stated Viera Gallo.  The minister also added that Ecuador “maintains a position which could be considered a mirror-image to that of Chile”.