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Chile, Argentina Sign Treaty To Promote
Co-Op
SANTIAGO - Chilean President Michelle
Bachelet and her Argentine counterpart
Cristina Fernandez signed a treaty on Friday
to promote integration and cooperation
between the two countries.
The "Maipu Agreement" was signed during
Fernandez's official visit to Chile. The
treaty includes projects of building road
and railway tunnels across their common
border and possible free transit for
citizens in the two countries.
Bachelet said the agreement was the first of
its kind between two Latin American
countries and marked "a new era of
cooperation."
The treaty is an update of the Peace and
Friendship Treaty signed 25 years ago to end
territorial disputes between the two
countries.
Argentina and Chile were stopped from
engaging in an armed conflict over control
of the Lennox, Picton and Nueva islands in
the Beagle Channel in 1978 by Vatican
mediation.
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