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Peru wins about 4 000 km2 at sea after agreement with Ecuador, said Alan García Pérez Jefferson

LIMA, AFP limits base that we have proposed that start elsewhere, giving us sea nearly 4,000 km2 in addition to what we had, "Garcia said reporters asked about details of the agreement between Lima and Quito.... nautical / ...sigue

The Peruvian president, who will leave office in July, also stressed that with this agreement, "Ecuador also by his side win its projection of the islands."

"The bottom line is that benefits us, ending with any questions or problems we had with Ecuador," Garcia said before giving up settled the issue with reporters approached him at the end of a ceremony public.

Alan Garcia also pointed out that if you receive criticism in Chile by the agreement between Lima and Quito "is because the thing is going well." Peru demanded

2008 to Chile before the International Court in The Hague claiming more than 90,000 km2 of territorial waters on its border, saying among other things, the absence of a boundary treaty, Chile version denies. "Until now it was said (in Chile) which is the 1952 agreement limits how come now to obtain a signed agreement limits? That means that before there was agreement limits (Ecuador), "said the President in reference fishing agreement tripartite Lima and Santiago interpreted differently.

"That I suppose that my dear friend, President Sebastián Piñera, and the Chilean Parliament, they will not say so. They have to present it differently, but surely we have taken a major step, "said Garcia. In that sense

estimated the deal would strengthen the Peruvian position before the Court of Justice in The Hague in the lawsuit filed against Chile Lima in 2008.

Garcia will travel to Ecuador on May 20 on an official visit to bid farewell to his counterpart Rafael Correa. The visit was announced last week.

The border agreement, whose contents have not yet been publicly disclosed in Lima, must be ratified by the Peruvian Congress, which is ready for discussion and will meet on Thursday.

same time, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry posted on its Web site the official documents that confirm its maritime boundary with Peru, which refers to the existence of "special circumstances" in the area adjacent to the border between the two countries by the presence of islands.