News (Media Awareness Project) - Ecuador: US Accord Upheld |
| Title: | Ecuador: US Accord Upheld |
| Published On: | 2001-01-19 |
| Source: | New York Times (NY) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-02 05:40:05 |
U.S. ACCORD UPHELD
The supreme court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1999 agreement
negotiated with the United States that allows American anti-narcotics
surveillance flights over Colombia to operate from an Ecuadorean Air Force
base in the coastal city of Manta. Opposition groups that see the American
presence as an infringement of Ecuador's sovereignty that will drag their
country into the deepening Colombian conflict had asked that the accord be
overturned.
The supreme court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1999 agreement
negotiated with the United States that allows American anti-narcotics
surveillance flights over Colombia to operate from an Ecuadorean Air Force
base in the coastal city of Manta. Opposition groups that see the American
presence as an infringement of Ecuador's sovereignty that will drag their
country into the deepening Colombian conflict had asked that the accord be
overturned.
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