NEW TACTIC IN ATTACKING THE RIO PROTOCOL.

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 13, 1962
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT:
1\11v Tactic in Attacking the Rio Protocol.
On February 8 the Colombian international lawyer, Dr. Ernesto
AGUIRRE Pefia., gave a talk at Quito conuaemora.ting the Dia del Oriente
in which he proposed a startling new thesis respecting the Pro-
tocol of Rio - that it doesn't exist.
The above point was the last of seven made by the jurist
as follows:
1. The Puntamayo River has never been a boundary. between
Peru and Ecuador. Yet there it stands as such in the Rio Protocol.
2. The Santiago-Zamora river is considered in the Rio Pro-
tocol as two rivers. Actually it is one river. In its upper
course it is called the Zamora, while in its lower course it is
called the Santiago. There cannot be a divide (between water-
sheds) of the same river.
3. The origin of the Amazon has not been clearly established.
In Article VI of the Rio Protocol it is stated that Ecuador will
have the same rights in the Amazon as Brazil and Colombia. Article
VIII recognizes in Ecuador the exit to the Amazon.
4. It has been stated that Chile, _Argentina, Brazil and the
United States are guarantors of the Rio Protocol, but in that
instrument there is no verification that these countries have such
a character. In order to be a guarantor it is necessary that a
country be assigned, accept; and take possession of the charge.
Llione of these acts have -tte-t-s-1-rave taken place in connection with
the Rio Protocol.
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The signature of the President of Brazil-has-not been.,
When this document was being 'signed the President of
170 kilometers away, and could not possibly have
The signatures on the Protocol are not complete. It
signature of one of the contracting plenipotentiaries,
years this is the first time this fact has been noted.
7. "Peru must be challenged to exhibit the Protocol. One
doesn't make a statement like this without thinking about it.
One can make oneself ridiculous. But I know what I am doing,
and I say it again. The question of the Rio Protocol is not one
of nullity, but one of non-existence. America is in a debt of
justice to Ecuador. If Peru has the Rio Protocol?let it be
exhibited."
Ao-ence France Press carried a report from Lima dated
February 9, which appeared in El Comercio the following day,
stating that an official of the Peruvian Foreign Office confirmed
the assertion that the Rio Protocol did not bear the signature of
the President of Brazil. However, the Peruvian official is also
reported as saying that the Protocol also lacks the signatures of
the Presidents of Ecuador and Peru, the document having been actually
signed in all cases by the respective plenipotentiaries.
COMMENT:
Although it is. not apt to be taken seriously in official
or informed circles, the thesis of the "non-existence" of the Rio
Protocol may develop some popular following despite its patent
absurdity.
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AmeonGen - GUAYAQUIL
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