Argentine-Chilian Boundary; The Continental Watershed in the Face of the Treaty of 1893 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... - Allow me to express my great surprise at the restriction placed by you on one of the most conclusive stipulations of the protocol of the 1 s t of May, and which was the motive of lengthy and laborious conferences which caused your retirement when said international agreement was being signed -. f The conferences began in March of 1893 in the Department of Foreign Affairs of Chili, you and my predecessor Mr. Virasoro assisting as experts, and Don Isidoro Errazuriz, Minister of the Department, and I, as Argentine Plenipotentiary, being also present-. -When treating of the cutting of rivers by the boundary line, you stated that same should be left, to be included in the instructions which the experts were to give to the demarking sub-commissions, as it was already understood; I on my part insisting that with regard to this matter we ought to sign a declaration to that effect-. c During the course of the negotiation we insisted on establishing said cutting of rivers, and you refused to allow it to be inserted in the protocol; and as the Argentine expert and myself refused to continue discussing the alfair, declaring that we considered said explanation to be indispensable, you did not return to the conferences, thus obliging your colleague Sefior Virasoro to retire likewise. The negotiation continued between Sefior Errazuriz and myself, and the declaration anent the cutting of rivers, established by Article 1, was included without limitation or restriction of any kind -. How can you therefore reopen a discussion on a point which is already resolved by means of a solemn treaty, sanctioned by the Congresses of the two interested nations? - - Besides, the cutting of rivers is implicitly established in the treaty of 1881, a...