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Article: ECUADOR TO FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST COLOMBIA AT INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE FOR FUMIGATIONS ALONG BORDER REGION.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- February 16, 2007
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Colombia's decision to renew aerial fumigations to kill coca plants along its southern border with Ecuador has set off a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Although Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced a deal with Colombia shortly before his Jan. 15 inauguration, he has since said that his government would take complaints regarding the herbicidal spraying to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague. Ecuador withdrew its ambassador from Bogota because of the dispute. Ecuadorans believe that Colombia is attempting to drag them into the Washington-financed Plan Colombia, a military program against rebel groups and drug traffickers, and ...
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