• Country/entity

  Ecuador
  Peru
  

• Region

  Americas
  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Intercambio de Notas sobre el Acuerdo de Bases respecto de la rehabilitación o reconstrucción de la bocatoma y obras conexas del Canal de Zarumilla

• Date

  26 Oct 1998

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Interstate/interstate conflict ( Cenepa War (1995) )

• Stage

  Framework/substantive - partial

• Conflict nature

  Territory

• Peace process

  Ecuador-Peru border dispute peace process

• Parties

  Ecuador, Peru:
  Fernando de Trazegnies Granda
  Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru
  
  Jose Ayala Lasso
  Minister of Foreign Affairs

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  The two parties agree to place the Regulation for the Administration of the Zarumilla Canal into the portfolio of agreements in the Acta Brasilia, and agree to have it enter into force simultaneously with the other agreements that make up the Acta.

• Agreement document

  EC_PE_981026_Exchange_of_Letters_on_the_Base_Agreement_tr.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

Exchange of Letters on the Base Agreement with respect to the rehabilitation or reconstruction of the Zarumilla Canal’s water pipes and related operations on the Zarumilla Canal

Note RE (GAC) No.

6/50

Lima, October 26th, 1998

His Excellency Minister:

I have the honour of addressing Your Excellency, in relation to aspects related to the administration of the Zarumilla Canal, which were addressed during talks held under the ltamaraty Peace Declaration.

In this regard, my Government expresses its compliance with Peru and Ecuador’s obligations and with the joint obligations of the two countries detailed in the "Base Agreement", as well as with the provisions contained in the Regulation for the Administration of the Zarumilla Canal and the Use of its Waters" approved during talks on the 5th of March and 8th of April of the current year, respectively.

As agreed in the "Base Agreement", management of the "Zarumilla River Basin" should be included in the list of projects of the Binational Development Plan for the Border Region, in line with the results of the preliminary studies that are envisaged.

The present, and the letter that with the same tenor Your Excellency will please respond with, will constitute an Agreement between our two countries, of which the two aforementioned documents will form an integral and inseparable part.

These two texts are annexed to this letter.

The present Agreement will enter into force simultaneously with those others that are signed on the same date and are part of the global and definitive solution referred to in the Implementation of the Brasilia Declaration Timetable, agreed by the Parties on the 19th of January, 1998, and under the conditions set out in it.

I take this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.

Fernando de Trazegnies Granda

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru

To His Excellency Mr Doctor

Jose Ayala Lasso

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

Quito.-

No. 20641-68/98gm

Quito, October 26th, 1998

His Excellency Minister:

I have the honour of addressing Your Excellency, in relation to aspects related to the administration of the Zarumilla Canal, which were addressed during talks held under the ltamaraty Peace Declaration.

In this regard, my Government expresses its conformity with the Peru and Ecuador’s obligations and with the joint obligations of the two countries detailed in the "Base Agreement", as well as with the provisions contained in the Regulation for the Administration of the Zarumilla Canal and the Use of its Waters" approved during talks on the 5th of March and 8th of April of the current year, respectively.

As agreed in the "Base Agreement", management of the "Zarumilla River Basin" should be included in the list of projects of the Binational Development Plan for the Border Region, in line with the results of the preliminary studies that are envisaged.

The present, and the letter that with the same tenor Your Excellency will please respond with, will constitute an Agreement between our two countries, of which the two aforementioned documents will form an integral and inseparable part of.

These two texts are annexed to this letter.

The present Agreement will enter into force simultaneously with those others that are signed on the same date and are part of the global and definitive solution referred to in the Implementation of the Brasilia Declaration Timetable, agreed by the Parties on the 19th of January, 1998, and under the conditions set out in it.

I take this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.

Jose Ayala Lasso

Minister of Foreign Affairs

To His Excellency Mr Doctor

Fernando de Trazegnies,

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru.

Lima -