Colombian Foreign Minister travels to Ecuador to sign the agreement limits

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin, today traveled to the Ecuadorian city of San Lorenzo to sign with his colleague in the neighboring country, Ricardo Patino, a maritime boundary agreement. 

The foreign minister flew to the Colombian city of Tumaco on the Pacific and south near the border with Ecuador, according to government sources said in Bogota. In Tumaco, belonging to the neighboring department of Nariño, the Minister will board a helicopter that transported to San Lorenzo, boundary chosen by the Foreign Ministry of Ecuador to formalize the document boundaries. 

Holguin and Patiño had announced last February 2 in the Colombian city of Cali (southwest) that their countries had reached agreement on the delimitation of boundaries in the Pacific. 

The task calls made ​​permanent joint commissions Colombian-Ecuadorian and Binational Mataje Boca del Rio, source marking the land boundary between the two countries to its mouth in the same ocean. 

Studies of both committees concluded with the precise location of "the coordinates of the point where it starts the maritime boundary between the two countries," said the Colombian Foreign Ministry. 

"Because it was defined the exact point where it starts the parallel that marks the maritime boundary between the two countries", stressed the source. 

The two countries share a land border of 586 km referred to in the Treaty Vernaza Suarez-Muñoz, in 1.916, had established a convention of 1,975 to its maritime boundary was determined from the river mouth Mataje. 

This document is the Convention Liévano-Lucio or agreement on delimitation of marine and submarine and maritime cooperation.