722.2315/2679: Telegram
The Ambassador in Peru (Norweb) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:30 p.m.]
697. For the Under Secretary. Your telegram No. 524, December 16, 7 p.m. It is apparent from our conversation last evening with the Minister of Foreign Affairs that Peru is anxious to reach a definitive settlement in the west and to have its troops withdrawn from the province of El Oro before the Rio de Janeiro Conference. There still is evasion regarding the basis for negotiations in the Oriente, where Peru obviously is seeking to limit Ecuadoran maximum claims to the 1936 line while reserving for itself the right to make claims which take into account its advanced military outposts.
The Foreign Minister will see the President today and will continue conversations with my Argentine and Brazilian colleagues and me this evening or tomorrow.
He indicated Peruvian approach is to reach a definite settlement in [Page 249] the west, while leaving open the question of a permanent frontier in the Oriente. If our present conversations lead to some such plan do you perceive objections to it?