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YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT EVO MORALES AND MINISTERS HECOR ARCE AND FERNANDO HUANACUNI MEET IN ROME, ITALY, WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TEAM WORKING IN THE COUNTER OF EL SILALA
Bolivian President Evo Morales, summoned yesterday to his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, to discuss the outstanding issues between the two countries and not only on the issue of maritime demand.
"My call to Chile's brother president, let us work as a government, respect our ideological and programmatic differences, and on bilateral issues we must have coincidences and agree on the outstanding issues. only (about) the theme of the sea, (or the) theme of Silala, but of so many problems that we have as neighbors, "said Morales in contact with Radio Patria Nueva
Italy, where he happened to participate in the consecration of Bishop Toribio Ticona as new cardinal of Bolivia and to hold a new meeting with Pope Francisco
Morales said that neighboring countries must find solutions to their problems. to the new generations
The private meeting between the Pope and the President is scheduled for this Saturday. We know that the meeting could deal, among other things, with Bolivian maritime demand.
MEETING
In addition, the Bolivian leader met yesterday with the national and international legal team to review the progress of the counter-memorial of the lawsuit against the waters of the Silala submitted by Chile to the Court International Criminal Justice (ICJ) The Hague
The international lawyers, Antonio Remiro Brotóns (Spain) and Mathias Forteau (France), the agent Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, Chancellor Fernando Huanacuni; the Minister of Justice, Héctor Arce; and the head of the Maritime Claims Branch, Emerson Calderón
Chile sued Bolivia in 2016 at the ICJ claiming that the waters of Silala, located in the Andean region of Potosí (southwest), originate from 39, an international water course. Chile presented its report in July of last year and Bolivia is preparing the Counter-Memorial, to be submitted by 3 September.
La Paz claims that Silala is a water reserve underground cbads artificially channeled into Chilean territory due to an agreement signed in 1908, which has now expired.
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