Ecuador to take Colombia coca spraying feud to World Court

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The Associated Press
Published: February 10, 2007

QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuador's new leftist President Rafael Correa said Saturday he will take a dispute with neighboring Colombia over its aerial fumigations of coca crops along their shared border to the World Court.

Correa made his announcement in a radio address one day after Ecuador's foreign minister said that Colombia had agreed to stop aerial fumigations of illegal coca crops in the border area, the raw material used to make cocaine.

Ecuador says the herbicide glyphosate drifts across the border, killing legal crops and causing health problems.

"We will use a heavy hand against what we consider an aggression," Correa said. "We are going to bring Colombia before the World Court in the Hague for the damage the unilateral decision to bombard the border with glyphosate has caused." ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/10/america/LA-GEN-Ecuador-Colombia-Coca-Feud.php

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