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Argentine President to present Final Account for settling Bolivian-Paraguayan border dispute PDF Print E-mail
Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 26, 2009. President Cristina Fernández will deliver on Monday to her colleagues Evo Morales and Fernando Lugo the "Final Account" prepared by a Commission headed by Argentina, that settled for good the border dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, the cause of a war between the two South American countries from 1932 through 1935, The conflict claimed the life of some 95,000 soldiers of both nations, reported Télam, the national news agency of Argentina.

A Peace Treaty signed in Buenos Aires on July 21, 1936, ended the war and appointed a Commission headed by Argentine, in which Brazil, Chile and Peru also formed part, to set the final limits in the disputed Chaco region between Bolivia and Paraguay. The Treaty earned Argentine foreign minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him in 1936.

Lugo and Morales will be received at the Government House on Monday night by President Cristina, who will hand them the official version of the document. The Final Account will be formally signed several hours before by the foreign ministers of Argentina, Jorge Taiana, Chile, Mariano Fernández, Bolivia, David Choquehuanca and Paraguay, Alejandro Hamed Franco.

The technical report on which the Final Account is based was drafted by a Mixed Demarcation commission headed by retired Argentine Army general Luis María Miró. The signing by Choquehuance and Hamed Franco will mark the termination of the commission´s activity.

Bolivian President Morales is expected in Buenos Aires on Sunday night. He plans to conduct on Monday several meetings with representatives of the large Bolivian community in Argentina before the ceremony at Government House.

Télam reported that Evo Morales will visit on Monday morning La Plata, capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, 50 kilometers south, where the City Council will proclaim him "Illustrious Citizen". The Bolivian President will also receive an "Honorary Degree" from the University of La Plata and a special award from its School of Journalism.

On his return to the Federal District, Morales will address a meeting of Bolivian residents at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires.

Lugo and Morales were also invited to attend on Monday night a rally organized at the Luna Park Stadium, to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Presidential election won by Néstor Kirchner, husband and antecessor of President Cristina Fernández. Kirchner is now chairman of the Justicialis (Peronist) Party.
 

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