translated from Spanish: Bolivia invites the consul of Chile in protest at suspension of meeting

the Government Thursday summoned Bolivian consul of Chile in La Paz, Manuel Hi nojosa, to protest against the “unilateral” suspension of a meeting of the Committee of borders between the two countries that should be done this week.
“Today we will hold the general consul of Chile to the Foreign Ministry to give the note of protest in Bolivia”, the Bolivian Minister of foreign, Diego Pary, announced in an interview with the State radio Patria Nueva.
The two countries maintain Consulates-General in La Paz and Santiago, but do not have diplomatic relations at the level of Ambassadors since 1962, except for a hiatus from 1975 to 1978, by the lack of a solution to the Bolivian claim that Chile restored the sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean lost in a war in 1879.
PARY argued that the suspension of the meeting “has no arguments because they are technical issues is working” in that instance, matters such as cooperation to combat smuggling or other “affecting both countries”.
“However, unjustifiably Chile has suspended this issue”, said the Minister.
The Bolivian Government has accused Chile of unilaterally suspend a border Committee meeting between the two countries in response to counterclaim submitted by Bolivia against Chile at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague over the waters of the Silala.
The meeting was planned for this Wednesday and Thursday in La Paz, but the Consulate of Chile reported that “it is not possible to perform” the meeting for “the conduct of Bolivia in the process followed” before this Court United Nations, according to a consular communication released by the Bolivian authorities.
The Chilean Foreign Minister, Roberto Ampuero, pointed out that the cancellation of the meeting was due to the decision of the Bolivian Government to keep in reserve the details of the counterclaim that it filed against Chile in the litigation by the Silala River, rather than the Executive of Evo Morales has flatly rejected.
“Bolivia does not have any possibility to influence, instruct or give some guidance to the Court. Court is a completely independent international body which has its own procedures and rules and they act independently,”he said regarding Pary.
The Bolivian Minister insisted that the suspension of the meeting “not justified”, because “the conditions were given” and “had a very friendly, very diplomatic dynamic between the two countries specifically working on these issues that are of common interest”.
“We remain willing, when thus Chile wish, to immediately reinstall the borders Committee because this Committee is the need to continue working,” he added.
Chile filed in 2016 with the Court based in the Dutch city of the Hague a lawsuit against Bolivia, which claims that the waters of the Silala are entitled to sharing international river.
Bolivia responded Friday with a Counter-Memorial in support of their position that they are a source of exclusive use of his country, at the same time that it filed a counterclaim in which asks Chile compensation for decades of use of these waters artificially diverted.
Both countries are also competing in the High Court of United Nations for the centuries-old Bolivian sea claim.

Original source in Spanish