Paraguay
Paraguay and Bolivia declare total demarcation of their border approved
The definition was reached at a meeting of the binational commission held in La Paz. According to Paraguay's Foreign Ministry, the agreement completes a process that began after the Chaco War.
Paraguay and Bolivia approved the final delineation of their shared border during the XIII Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the Joint Paraguayan-Bolivian Boundary Demarcation Commission, which is taking place from September 14 to 16 in La Paz, ABC Color reported based on a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry, the main advance was the validation of the stretch of the international boundary between Hito X “12 de Junio” and Hito XI “Confluencia de los ríos Negro u Otuquis y Paraguay,” identified as the trifinio point between Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
The ministry said that, with that approval, the entire border between the two countries is now recognized and recorded. Still according to the official report cited by ABC Color, it is a line of approximately 742 kilometers, of which 704 correspond to land border and 38 to river border.
The Paraguayan delegation is headed by Carlos José Fleitas Rodríguez, president of the National Boundary Demarcation Commission of Paraguay.
The Foreign Ministry linked this definition to a historical process opened after the Chaco War. According to the official report, the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Borders was signed on July 21, 1938 and ordered the task of a joint commission to apply on the ground the line set by the Arbitral Award of October 10, 1938. It also indicated that, after the instructions approved on November 25 of that year, the work formally began on December 16, 1938.
The report added that the border was organized into eleven main vertices, from Hito I “Esmeralda,” at the trifinio with Argentina, to Hito XI, at the confluence of the Negro u Otuquis and Paraguay rivers, at the trifinio with Brazil.
According to the same official source, Paraguay and Bolivia are currently the only South American countries with fully demarcated borders.
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