Chile calls home ambassador to Peru in maritime border dispute |
SANTIAGO, Chile: Chile summoned home its ambassador from Peru on Monday in a renewed border dispute stemming from a war fought more than 120 years ago.
The Foreign Ministry said it was calling in Ambassador Cristian Barros "for consultations," a step governments often use to express displeasure with the country where a diplomat is based.
A day earlier, Chile said it had filed a formal diplomatic protest over Peru's publication of an official map indicating that country owns a fishing-rich portion of the Pacific Ocean claimed by Chile.
A law passed by Peru's legislature in 2005 asserted that the sea boundary between the two countries has never been defined. Chile says the limits were permanently demarcated in two 1950s treaties and that the land border was established in a 1929 treaty.
Peru has said it plans to bring the dispute to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
In another sign of the dispute, the speaker of Chile's lower house of congress, Patricio Walker, canceled a planned visit to Lima, saying publication of the map was "a major provocation" by the Peruvian government.
Chile's relations with neighboring Peru and Bolivia have been undermined by disputes stemming from the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, in which Chile captured territory from both neighbors — including Bolivia's only coastline.
Recovery of at least part of the coastline has been a major diplomatic goal of Bolivia for decades.
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