U.S. AERONAUTICAL CHART SHOWING PORTION PERU-ECUADOR FRONTIER MARKED BOUNDARY IN DISPUTE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 1, 1967
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: U. S. Aeronautical Chart Showing Portion Peru-Ecuador
Frontier Marked "Boundary in Dispute*
REF Embassy's A-357 dated January 1, 1967
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It has come to the Embassy's notice that the World Aeronautical
Chart No. 1011 (Aguja Point), eighth edition, 1964, published
by the U.S. Department of the Air Force, which dhows a
portion of northern Peru and southern Ecuador, marks a portion
of the Peru-Ecuador frontier as *boundary in dispute". This
chart is currently available for sale in Lima through
commercial outlets.
The Embassy's airgram under reference reported that the
Peruvian Government on December 27, 1966, issued a Ministerial
Resolution forbidding the ,entry and circulation in Peru of
an atlas, published by the 0.S. Hammond Co. of New York, which
shows the Peru-Ecuador boundary as marked "in dispute".
As the Department is aware, the Peruvian Government firmly
insists that the Peru-Ecuador boundary was delimited once and
for all by the 1942 Rio Protocol, which was guaranteed by
the United States as well as Argentina, Brazil and Chile; and
that consequently no "dispute" as to the boundary exists.
The sensitivity of the Peruvian Government as to any suggestion
?that the boundary is "in dispute" recently was heightened by
the unilateral annulment of the Rio Protocol by the Ecuadorean
Constituent Assembly, which has caused considerable tension
between Peru and Ecuador especially during the Observance of
the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Protocol on
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Boundary markers have been placed along the Peru-Ecuador
:frontier except for a stretch along the Cordillera del Condor
in the area of that portion of the border marked "boundary in
dispute' on chart No. 1011.
In view of the sensitivity of the Peruvian Government to all
maps which indicate that the Peru-Ecuador border is subject
to dispute, the Embassy believes that the discovery by the
Peruvian Government that a map published by an agency of the
U.S. Government, a guarantor of the Rio Protocol, indicating
the Peru-Ecuador border is "in dispute", could cause consid-
erable embarrassment to the United States. The Embassy there-
fore suggests that the "lboundary in dispute" notation be?
deleted from the existing U.S. stocks of aeronautical chart
No. 1011 and that any subsequent reissue either, indicate the
yet-unmarked portion of the Peru-Ecuador boundary as "'boundary
unmarked" or that the entire boundary be shown without ex-
planatory notation.
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