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Article: GUATEMALA'S BORDER AND TERRITORIAL DISPUTE WITH BELIZE INTENSIFIES AS TRADE TALKS ADVANCE.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- June 2, 2005
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Guatemala's Foreign Minister Jorge Briz has said that Belize has assumed an "intransigent" posture in its effort to resolve a border dispute whose history reaches back beyond the birth of Belize as an independent country. Briz challenged the latest Belizean attempt at border security while simultaneously the two countries were on the verge of finalizing a trade pact between them. Intransigence in this case, however, is a two-way street. Guatemala failed to submit a treaty for ratification by referendum in 2002, which would have ended the dispute.
With that aborted attempt at resolution as justification, Asaad Shoman, Belize's minister of foreign affairs, in ...