The roads to the Sea to Chile says he is open to Bolivia

Chile said today that Bolivia access to the Pacific ocean through its ports, the Monday after that country's president Evo Morales said his nation is “temporarily deprived” de litoral.

“Chile has prioritized the advances in connectivity and border facilitation for the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Republic of Paraguay, seeking to consolidate transit systems safe and efficient”, Vienna said the Chilean ambassador to Germany, former Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez.

Diplomatic statements occurred in the Second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries taking place in Vienna, Austria, forum intevino also President Morales.

“Chile, in exercise of its sovereignty, said these countries access to sea routes and ports enabled, using all available means of transport”He delved into this framework Fernandez.

About the same, he insisted that Bolivia has in Chilean ports “free storage for one year for their imports and exports to 60 days; also enjoy preferential tariffs for some services use pier; reduced rates for the storage of dangerous cargoes and tax exemption on all services provided to their charges”.

“All costs of these benefits are borne by the State of Chile”, Fernandez said.

Bolivia to Chile in 2013 sued the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) to force it to negotiate a sovereign access to the Pacific.

Chile, which challenged the jurisdiction of the Court, noted that no one can force a country to cede sovereignty and rejects Bolivia's request, noting that both countries signed free boundaries in 1904.

Bolivia, which since 1978 has no relations at ambassadorial level with Chile, it lost its access to the sea in the Pacific War in 1879, conflagration territories of Chile and Peru the country was annexed.

However, Chile gives tax exemption to Bolivian exports, and free storage for one year, benefits are not Chilean entrepreneurs.

In any case, any sovereign territorial cession to Bolivia by the cities of Iquique and Arica must be authorized by Peru, due to agreements between that country and Chile.

SOURCE: Elcomercio.pe