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Chile and Bolivia agree to resolve migrant crisis at their border

Presidents Gabriel Boric of Chile and Luis Arce of Bolivia met at the inauguration of Gustavo Petro | Font: EFE | Photographer: —

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presidents ChileGabriel Boric and others. BoliviaLuis Arce, determined to resolve the migration crisis at the common border, after meeting this Sunday in Colombia, where they attend the inauguration ceremony of Gustavo Petro.

“We have made significant progress in our bilateral relations and integration on issues that we know are of concern to most of our compatriots, such as migration and cooperation between the two countries,” Boric told Chilean media in Bogotá after meeting with Arce. took place in a hotel in the Colombian capital.

The bi-national border has in recent years been the scene of a massive movement of undocumented migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who attempt to cross the border on foot along illegal steps from Bolivia in the direction Chile exposing their lives to the extreme climate of the Altiplano and human trafficking gangs. Over the past year, more than 20 migrants have died trying to cross the border.

“In the coming weeks we will see that we can organize the desktop that existed before, and we are going to resume it, in order to be able to consider the issue of migration, but not only at the bilateral level, that we are also talking about the issue of migration at the multilateral level,” – explained the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Antonia Urrehola, who participated in the meeting.

Issues other than the migration crisis

Urrecola added that the leaders also discussed the use of lithium, a “strategic resource” for Chile and Bolivia, lithium-rich countries, and that they are exploring the idea of ​​”working together” to use this resource in a project that will also include Argentina.

Bilateral relations have been marked by centuries of maritime demand for Bolivia which lost its only shores in the Pacific in the war with Chile in the 19th century.

This topic was not discussed at this meeting because Chile This was overcome after the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled in 2018 that Chile was under no obligation to negotiate a solution to the Bolivian claim.

(According to AFP)

Source: RPP

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