BUENOS AIRES, April 28 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Solovsky. The President of Bolivia Evo Morales and his Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo was signed late in the evening on Monday in Buenos Aires an agreement on the demarcation of international boundaries, formally indicating complete resolution of armed conflict between the two countries in the years 1932-1935, which claimed the lives of more than 100 thousand people, transmits RIA Novosti correspondent.
ceremony of signing the document took place in the presence of the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at Government House. The agreement on the demarcation of boundaries was agreed upon after 71 years, after Argentina took the lead specially created for this commission, which also includes Brazil, Chile, United States, Peru and Uruguay.
Today's historic eventis a symbol of final completion phase senseless armed conflicts , – said Cristina Kirchner. According to her, put an end to the war, which had the smell of oil.
most bloody war 20 th century on the American continent was between Bolivia and Paraguay over the possession of Gran Chaco, which was mistakenly thought to possess great hydrocarbon reserves. The warring parties to maintain the oil Standard Oil Corporation and Shell Oil. Bolivia, Paraguay exceeded the human resources and weapons in about 3.5 times, has suffered several heavy defeats. Nearly 300 thousand of its soldiers were taken prisoner. Both sides in the war Chakskoy were killed and wounded more than 250 thousand people. Treaty of Peace, to establish an international commission for the subsequent demarcation of the border between Bolivia and Paraguay, was signed July 21, 1938, three years after the end of hostilities.
In Chakskoy war opposed to each other, two armies, almost entirely created and trained by Russian and German military. Among the leadership of Bolivian armed forces were 120 German officers emigrants (including the army commander Hans Kundt, fought in the First World War on the Eastern Front against the Russians). The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Paraguay was led by former tsarist army colonel Ivan Belyaev. But they fought with a further 80 officers who left Russia after the Civil War.
According to the Paraguayans, the Russian soldiers to ensure their victory in the war. In their honor, many named streets in the capital of Paraguay, Asuncion, and even entire villages. Until now, Russian community, numbering about fifteen hundred people, occupies an important place in the life of the country.
in April was 100 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Paraguay. Recently, in Asuncion was opened Embassy of the Russian Federation.
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