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Belize and Mexico are renegotiating a border treaty

Belize and Mexico are renegotiating a border treaty of July 1893. It concerns an area on the two sides of the Rio Hondo. What will be effects of this is still unknown as details of this renegotiating have not been published.

In principle, an initial agreement has been reached. Only Belize’s observations regarding several points on the border are missing; for example, the Chetumal Bay, where the treaty currently is in force, that was signed in July 1893 with important errors, considers land that has always belonged to Belize, as Mexican territory.

The changes to the treaty will not change the ground owner, however, and no land would change hands.

Back 06.01.2007.

 

 

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