BOLIVIA-CHILE-PERU |
Access to the sea. President Evo Morales has called on the Navy to be “ready, trained and organised” for the time when Bolivia regains its sovereign access to the Pacific. In a speech commemorating the 185
th anniversary of the creation of the Navy, Morales said this “will happen at any moment”. The defence minister, Rubén Saavedra, meanwhile, reiterated the Morales administration’s threat to take Chile to the International Court of Justice at The Hague over the matter. The president of Chile’s foreign affairs committee of the lower chamber of congress, Jorge Tarud, said Chile would not “talk under threats”, adding that turning to The Hague was a sign of Morales’s falling popularity amid internal problems. He said Chile would be happy to discuss Bolivia’s access to the Pacific if it dropped its threats “but let this be very clear, without sovereignty”.
In a related development, a Bolivian congressional delegation visited Lima this week to request the ratification of an agreement signed between Morales and Peru’s former president Alan García (2006-2011) in October 2010 to allow Bolivia to base a navy training school at Ilo port [
WR-10-42].
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