Lima, Mar. 25 (ANDINA).- Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that Peru's lawsuit against Chile presented to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will affect Bolivia’s bid to win access to the sea.
Garcia said Peru does not want to be an obstacle for the sea hopes of Bolivia, which lost its coastline during the War of the Pacific in 1879.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday Peru's report on the maritime dispute with Chile will affect Bolivian chances to obtain a sovereign outlet to the ocean.
Peru filed a lawsuit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague last week, demanding maritime demarcation with Chile.
Peru has claimed that the maritime zone had never been delimited; however, Chile says the current border was established under two agreements signed in the 1950s. But Peru argued that those were not boundary delimitation deals but fishing agreements.
Peru's application at the ICJ requests the court to determine the course of the boundary between the maritime zones of the two states in accordance with international law.
The dispute dates back to the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, in which Peru and Bolivia lost substantial territory to Chile. Since then Bolivia is the only Latin American country without export to the sea.
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