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LIMA, July 10, (APP/AFP) – Peru on Monday recalled
its ambassador to Ecuador because of its neighbor’s construction of a
wall along a busy part of their common border.
Peru’s move, announced by its foreign ministry, came as Ecuador
pushed on with building the new four-meter (13-foot) high barrier along
of the western side of its southern city of Huaquillas.
The wall would physically separate the city from Peru’s town
of Aguas Verdes, lying just across a river, despite Peru’s
repeated demands that the work immediately stop.
The row has revived tensions between the two South American
countries.
In 1995, they fought for three months — the so-called Cenepa war
broke out over a disputed jungle area elsewhere along
their 1,500-kilometer (900-mile) frontier.
Peru’s foreign ministry said in its statement that it viewed the
border wall as a violation of a 1998 bilateral peace accord.