Rio Protocol

<p>The Protocol of Peace, Friendship, and Boundaries between Peru and Ecuador, or Rio Protocol for short, was an international agreement signed in <a href="/facts/Rio_de_Janeiro/AVPTJJ2C">Rio de Janeiro</a>, Brazil, on January 29, 1942, by the foreign ministers of <a href="/facts/Peru/dBt7XrYD">Peru</a> and <a href="/facts/Ecuador/Tdv7czY4">Ecuador</a>, with the participation of the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, <a href="/facts/First_Brazilian_Republic/2lmMBDLb">Brazil</a>, <a href="/facts/Chile/uEyTfEcx">Chile</a>, and <a href="/facts/Argentina/aFSA5bAk">Argentina</a> as guarantors. The Protocol was intended to finally resolve the long-running <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Ecuadorian%25E2%2580%2593Peruvian_territorial_dispute/JGwGoyun">territorial dispute</a> between the two countries, and brought about the official end of the <a href="/facts/Ecuadorian%25E2%2580%2593Peruvian_War/MUmokY7C">Ecuadorian–Peruvian War</a> of 1941–1942. Nevertheless, the Protocol was incomplete, and war broke out between Peru and Ecuador twice more, in <a href="/facts/Paquisha_War/837zrHdI">1981</a> and in <a href="/facts/Cenepa_War/TVYSw8cP">1995</a>, before the signing of the Itamaraty Peace Declaration which brought final resolution to the dispute.
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