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Brazil pledges to keep working on Paraguay’s request to return the Cristiano cannon

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Paraguay’s foreign minister said Brazil had officially received a request to return the Cristiano cannon and other war trophies captured during the 1865-1870 War of the Triple Alliance.
  • The cannon is displayed at Brazil’s National Historical Museum in Rio de Janeiro, and the two countries plan another foreign ministers’ meeting in October.
  • Paraguay says the process must pass through Brazil’s executive branch and Congress because the items form part of Brazil’s national heritage.

Paraguay and Brazil have agreed to keep working toward a solution over the return of the Cristiano cannon, a war trophy captured by Brazilian troops during the War of the Triple Alliance.

Paraguayan Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano said he reached the agreement after meeting his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, in Montevideo. Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry said Brazil had officially received the request to return the cannon and other trophies taken during the 1865-1870 conflict. The Cristiano cannon is now displayed at the National Historical Museum in Rio de Janeiro.

Continue working to advance the search for a solution.

— Rubén Ramírez Lezcano and Mauro VieiraThe foreign ministers’ agreed position on Paraguay’s request.

The ministers plan to meet again in October. At Vieira’s invitation, Ramírez Lezcano is also expected to travel to Brasília to examine the issue and identify the fastest mechanisms for resolving it.

A definitive page

— Rubén Ramírez LezcanoHe said returning the trophies could close a painful chapter of the War of the Triple Alliance.

Ramírez Lezcano said Paraguay had worked to recover the cannon since the beginning of his term. He described the return of the trophies as a way to turn “a definitive page” on “a sad history of the War of the Triple Alliance.” He said Brazil is the only one of the three allied countries in that war that has not returned Paraguay’s war trophies.

The foreign minister said the process would first involve Brazil’s executive branch and later its National Congress because Brazilian law treats the objects as part of the country’s heritage. Paraguay has not yet received an official Brazilian document confirming a possible return. “Diplomacy has its means, its timing and its processes, and this is a historic claim,” Ramírez Lezcano said.

Diplomacy has its means, its timing and its processes, and this is a historic claim.

— Rubén Ramírez LezcanoHe described Paraguay’s continuing effort to recover the cannon and other historic objects.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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