PERU AND BRAZIL AGREE ON BORDER MARKERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000800030001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 17, 1981
• Content Type: CABLE

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suSJ:PERU AND BRAZIL AGREE ON BORDER MARKERS
1. THE FOREIGN MINISTRY'S DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY?
GUSTAVO LEMECKE DE LA FLOR, ANNOUNCED APR 10 THAT PERU AND BRAZIL
WILL PLACE MARKERS ALONG THE SOUTHERN PART OF THEIR COMMON BORDER
nuRING THE .FIRST TWO WEEKS OF MAY. LEMBCKE SAID THAT THIS WAS IN
ACCORDANCE WITH AN AGREEMENT REACHED IN BRASILIA LAST YEAR,
TO UPGRADE THE QUALITY OF DEMARCATION IN AN AREA WHERE THE CURRENT
MARKERS DATE BACK TO 1910 AND ARE, HOPELESSLY OVERGROWN. THE NEW
MARKERS WILL BE FROM 47 TO 30 KM APART/ EACH COUNTRY IS TO EMPLACE
TWENTY.
2. LEFTIST nDIARIO DE MARKAm REPORTED IN ITS SUNDAY SUPPLE-
MENT APRIL.12 THAT THE PERUVIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY WAS KEEPING
sECRET A NOTE THAT IT HAD RECEIVED FROM BRASILIA IN WHICH THE
Gni) HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST IN PLACING THE BORDER MARKERS IN THE
78 KM OF THE FRONTIER WITH ECUADOR STILL UNMARKED. ?mARKAn
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CONTENDED THAT THE OTHER THREE GUARANTORS- ? ?THE ASSASSINS OF
leTELIER, :THE KIDNAPPERS ,OF THE MONTONEROS, AND THE GENOCIDES
OF EL SALVADOR** a.s! HAVE NU INTEREST IN BRINGING THE PERU/ECUADOR
CONFLICT TO AN END BY .DEMARCATING THE BORDER., IF HMARKA" HAD
ANY BASIS AT ALL FOR THIS EFFORT TO EMPLOY THE NATIONAL CONSENSUS
ON TME NEED 'FORPLACING THE MARKERS IN THE 78 KM AS A MEANS
OF ATTACKING THE GOVERNMENTS OF ARGENTINA, CHILE, AND THE U.S.,
WE EXPECT ,THAT IT WAS A-DISTORTED VERSION OF A BRAZILIAN
MESSAGE AGREEING TO GO AHEAD WITH RENOVATING THE -DEMARCATION .OF
ITS OWN BORDER WITH PERU.
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