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Weekly Report - 10 February 2011 (WR-11-06)
BOLIVIA-CHILE: An historic meeting
It was the first visit by a Chilean foreign minister to Bolivia for
60 years. Alfredo Moreno travelled to La Paz at the head of a high-level
delegation this week to discuss the 13-point bilateral agenda aimed at restoring
diplomatic ties, which have been severed since 1978, with his Bolivian
counterpart David Choquehuanca. Whether the outcome of the visit proves
similarly historic remains to be seen: there was little indication of how the
two main points of contention - the issue of Bolivia's access to the sea, which
it lost to Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879 to 1884), and rights over the
Silala river - would be addressed.
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