GUAIRA FALLS DISPUTE.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000400370013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 25, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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' SUBJECT : GUAIRA FALLS DISPUTE.
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I. FONOFF CONFIRMED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT GOB NOTE ON CNA STAT'
FALLS DISPUTE HAS BEEN DELIVERED IN ASUNCION TO. GOP, AND RELEASED
TEXT TO LOCAL JOURNALISTS.. EMBASSY POUCHING FULL TEXT.
FOLLOWING .RESUME MAIN POINTS TAKEN FROM TODAYS 'S PRESS.
2. AS ANTICIPATED, NOTE TAKES HARD LINE, REFUSING TO AIW 1-1
EXISTENCE OF ANY .ARGUMENT OVER BOUNDARY "SINCE BORDEA BLTWEEN
TVG COUNTRIES WAS FULLY ESTABLISHED 'IN 1872 AND 1927 TREATIES
AND PERFECTLY DEMARCATED, MOREOVER, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TM
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FIRST OF THESE INSTRUMENTS, BY MIXED DEMARCATING COMMISSION
WHICH MET BETWEEN 1872 AND 1874 AS RECORDED IN RESPECTIVE
MINUTES (PTAS).? '
3. NOTE ARCHES THAT EXAMINATION OF TEXT OF 1872 TREATY
(PASSAGES ARE CITED) LEADS TO CONCLUSION THAT INTERSECTING
POINT OF DIVIDING LINE THAT RUNS ALONG BFD (ALVE0) OF
P-MV7.1. A RIVER 1ri1 T1-7-1 DIVIDING LINE THAT_CONTINUES_ALOUJI,GH
R IDCE OF MA1TACAJU IS SALTO GRANDE (FIFTH FALL). 1?;Al L WAS
CZCArit...FD NATURAL AND PERM ANcNT BOUNDARY STAKE; 'HE
EXTREMITY OF EAST -WEST LINE WAS ESTABLISHED IN FRONT OF
FALLS (COMMENT : THEREBY PUTT ING FALLS IN BR AZ IL I AN
TERRITORY). NOTE STATES GEOGRAPJ-11,0 posnow CF FALLS_?QAS
RECORDED IN MINUTES (ATA) OF 11TH CONFERENCE OF DEM.ARCATIDIG
CO.7.1ISSI ONWHICH THUS RENDERS GROUNDLESS_AF.FIRMATIONS_OF
0.0P NOTE THAT POINT NARACAJU RIDGE CLOSEST TO SALTO DE
SET; QUEDAS WAS NOL DEMAIT ED .
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A. BY ADOPTING SUCH AN ATTITUDE, NOTE CLAIMS, GO? DENYING
FuLFILLMENT OF 1930 PROTOCOL OF 1927 TREATY AND PREVIOuS
LACES THAT GO? RATIFIED: THE DEMARCATION OF 1872 AND THE
TREATY OF .1872. FOR THE PRESENT MIXED COMMISSION TO
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PROCEED To A NEN DEMARCATION OF BORDER, As GOP DESIRES,
WOULD BE A TOTAL VIOLATION OF 1927 TREATY AND PROTOCOL ,OF
' 1930. GOB CANNOT ACCEPT THIS AND CONSIDERS THAT INDER
INTERNATIONAL LAL, THE DEMARGATION DONE BY THE MIXED ?
COMMISSION AND APPROVED By RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS IS ?
DFFINITIvE AND CANNOT BE MODIFIED WITHOUT MUTUAL AGREEMENT
OF TUEsE COvERNMENTs.
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5. RE GOP ARGumENT THAT, NORTHERN "RIDGE" IS XIG1:ZR NOTE
STATES THAT EVEN IF WORK OF DEMARCATING SERRA DE ? MARACA-MI m. ? ?
HAD NOT TERMINATED IN FRONT OF, FIFTH FALL (PARA 3 ABOVE) '
AND DESPITE FACT OF HIGHER LEVEL OF VARIOUS POINTS OF '
NORTHERN SPUR THAT GO? CALLS NORTHERN RIDGE, THE BRAZILIAN
BORDER WITH PARAGUAY COULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
FOLLOT THE CREST Or A SPUR, THIS SPUR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR FORmATION OF FALLS, IS NOT THE PRINCIPAL MASS OF THE
RANGE ?ND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE' THE "DRY(LINE" (LINHA SECA);
THEREFORE TO USE IT IS CONTRARY TO THE LETTER AND SPIRIT '
OF 1872 TREATY.
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6. REFERRING TO BRAZILIAN TROOPS NOTE STATES THAT SINCE
1872-74 DEMARCATION IS RECOGNIZED_ AS EXACT, VALID AND
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. DEFINITIVE THE BRAZILIAN MILITARY DETACHMENT, LOCATED ABOVE '.
THE FIFTH FALL, TO THE NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY LINE FIXED
EY THE DEMARCATION, IS IN BRAZIL. .
7. NOTE EXPRESSES GOB DESIRE AVOID coNTINuINO POLEMICS AND
AFFIRMS THAT REAL QUESTION THAT OUGHT TO OCCUPY ATTENTION -
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OF BOTH SIDES is NOT THE SEEING OF DOUBT OR STERILE
YRANCLINCS BUT THE SEARCH FOR CONDITIONS,CAPABLE OF ASSURING ,
I .THE TELL BPI NC OF "MIR PEOPLE" THROUGH'? FRATERNAL ? '
1 COLABORATION FOR THE SOLUTION OF COMMON PROBLEMS. MENTIONING
THE POSSIBILITY OF UTILIZING HYDROELECTRIC POTENTIAL OF THE
1 PARANA', NOTE CiNCLUDES WITH FOLLOWING CONSTRMTIVE STATEMENT:
, A ; CONVERSATION IT H PARAGUAY, THE NECESSARY PLANS FOR THE "BRAZIL IS, ; IT ALWAYS WAG, DISPOSED TO ENTERAUPON
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