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Operation Safe Border

References

• War and Peace in the Amazon: Strategic Implications for the United States and Latin America of the 1995 Ecuador-Peru War, 24 November 1995 Size = 155K
• FACT SHEET: ECUADOR/PERU DISPUTE COMMISSIONS INAUGURATED 17 February 1998
• OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA -- 24 April 1998
• Joint Task Force-Safe Border earns JMUA Released: May 5, 1998
• ECUADOR, PERU TO HAVE USE OF TOP U.S. SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY 25 March 1998 -- By Jane A. Morse USIA Diplomatic Correspondent (U.S. mapping techniques to aid in resolving border dispute)
• PERU / ECUADOR Voice of America 07 August 1998 -- PERU SAYS ECUADORIAN TROOPS HAVE MADE AN INCURSION 20 KILOMETERS INTO PERUVIAN TERRITORY, ALONG THE TWO COUNTRIES' DISPUTED BORDER -- WHERE A BRIEF, UNDECLARED WAR WAS FOUGHT IN 1995.
• PERU / ECUADOR SITUATION Voice of America 14 August 1998 -- TENSIONS ALONG THE PERU / ECUADOR BORDER HAVE BEEN BUILDING AS THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT WAS SURPRISED BY A REPORTED INCURSION OF SOME 300 ECUADORAN TROOPS.
• ECUADOR / PERU Voice of America 08 October 1998 -- THE PRESIDENTS OF ECUADOR AND PERU SAY THEY WILL MEET WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON FRIDAY TO TRY TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK IN THE LONGSTANDING DISPUTE OVER THE BORDER BETWEEN THE TWO ANDEAN NATIONS.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY AMBASSADOR JIM DOBBINS, NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR INTERAMERICAN AFFAIRS October 9, 1998 -- The United States has been heavily engaged in seeking to broker a peace agreement between Peru and Ecuador since the last outbreak of actual military conflict between the two in 1995.
• President Clinton's Meeting with Presidents Fujimori and Mahuad October 9, 1998 -- STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
• Ecuador-Peru Border Dispute FACT SHEET October 9, 1998 -- President Clinton met with Presidents Fujimori of Peru and Mahuad of Ecuador today at the White House to continue United States' efforts to mediate a diplomatic settlement to a long and complex border dispute that has given rise to tension between the two countries for much of this century.
• U.S. APPLAUDS PERU-ECUADOR COMMITMENT TO BINDING PEACE PACT By Bruce Carey USIA 16 October 1998 -- The United States hailed action by the legislatures of Peru and Ecuador to put an end to the border conflict between those two countries as a boon to their economies and national life.
• ECUADOR / PERU Voice of America 16 October 1998 -- CONGRESSES IN ECUADOR AND PERU HAVE BOTH AGREED TO LET FOUR OTHER NATIONS SETTLE A FESTERING BORDER DISPUTE THAT HAS ERUPTED IN THREE WARS IN THE PAST SIX DECADES.
• TEXT: ECUADOR AND PERU GET PROPOSAL TO END BORDER DISPUTE USIA 23 October 1998 -- -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States have submitted a peace plan that can end the 50-year border dispute between Peru and Ecuador.
• CLINTON PRAISES PERU-ECUADOR PEACE AGREEMENT USIA 26 October 1998 -- Text of President Clinton's October 26 statement congratulating the leaders of Peru and Ecuador for their signing of a border settlement agreement.
• U.S. HAILS PERU-ECUADOR PEACE TREATY By Eric Green USIA 26 October 1998 -- The United States has hailed the Ecuador-Peru peace agreement signed October 26, which ends a more than 50-year border dispute between the two countries.
• ECUADOR / PERU Voice of America 26 October 1998 -- ECUADOR AND PERU BOTH CLAIM VICTORY IN A COMPREHENSIVE PEACE ACCORD SIGNED IN FRONT OF FIVE OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN BRASILIA.
• ECUADOR/PERU PEACE HIGHLIGHTS HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION USIA 04 November 1998 -- On October 26 Peru and Ecuador signed an agreement that ended over fifty years of border strife. The agreement they signed was notable for many reasons. The signing resolved the most dangerous border dispute extant in Latin America.
• TRANSCRIPT: COHEN LAUDS SUCCESS OF PERU-ECUADOR PEACE PROCESS USIA 01 December 1998 -- The United States is offering to support the Peru-Ecuador peace agreement by helping with the removal of the estimated 10,000 land mines planted during the two countries' decades-long dispute.
• LEADERS OF PERU, ECUADOR TO MEET IN WASHINGTON FEB. 4-5 Eric Green USIA 07 January 1999 -- The presidents of Peru and Ecuador will meet in Washington February 4-5 for talks on implementing a peace treaty signed last October between the two countries.
• CEREMONY CLOSING THE MILITARY OBSERVER MISSION ECUADOR-PERU The Military Observer Mission Ecuador-Peru (MOMEP) formally closed today at a ceremony in Patuca, Ecuador. From 1995 to today, the United States has participated with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in Operation SAFE BORDER, providing observers, logistics, and aviation support to the MOMEP contingent. All foreign military personnel who participated in MOMEP, including the U.S. contingent, will be entirely withdrawn from the area by June 30.

• Operation Safe Border: The Ecuador-Peru Crisis Colonel Glenn R. Weidner, USA Joint Forces Quarterly Spring 1996 [710 kb PDF]
• WAR AND PEACE IN THE AMAZON: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA OF THE 1995 ECUADOR-PERU WAR Gabriel Marcella Department of National Security and Strategy, November 24, 1995 [153 kb PDF]