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722.2315/967

Agreement Between the Republics of Ecuador and Peru, Signed at Lima, July 6, 193612

Lima, July 6, 1936
[Translation]

The Republics of Ecuador and of Peru desirous of settling the difficulties caused until now by the divergency in their viewpoints with respect to the execution of the Protocol of June 21, 1934 [1924];

And considering that they have held throughout the long discussion of their boundary question the purpose of resolving it by peaceful means and the confidence of reaching a complete and definitive settlement of the controversy,

Have appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, namely:

His Excellency Federico Páez, In Charge of the Supreme Power of Ecuador, to His Excellency Homero Viteri Lafronte, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of Peru, and

His Excellency General Oscar R. Benavides, President of the Republic of Peru, to His Excellency Alberto Ulloa, his Minister for Foreign Affairs;

Who, after exchanging their respective credentials which have been found in order, have agreed as follows:

  • Article 1. Ecuador and Peru undertake to define that the arbitration provided for in Article 1 of the Protocol of June 21, 1924, is a de jure arbitration. This definition will be incorporated in the minutes of the inaugural session of the Delegations referred to in the following article.
  • Article 2. The Delegations established by Article 1 of the said Protocol shall be composed of three plenipotentiary delegates each and shall meet in Washington the 30th of September of the present year. The two governments shall communicate to each other in writing at this time the names of their delegates and shall notify each other opportunely of any substitutions that they may make.
  • Article 3. Ecuador and Peru shall maintain the status quo of their present territorial positions until the termination of the negotations in Washington of the arbitral proceedings without this implying recognition by one of the parties of the right of the other to the territories at present possessed.

In witness whereof the above named plenipotentiaries sign this act and affix thereon their seals, in duplicate, in the city of Lima the 6th day of July, 1936.

  • Homero Viteri L.
  • Alberto Ulloa
  1. Copy supplied by the Ecuadoran Foreign Office and transmitted to the Department by the Minister in Ecuador in his despatch No. 493, August 19; received August 28.↩