Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Tripoint picture: BZGTMX
Date: Jan 16, 2006 @ 00:55
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
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I just Googled "Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas
México-Guatemala-Belice" and got 138 hits.

I don't have time to check them out, but the commission is not as obscure as one
might think.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Tripoint picture: BZGTMX


> doug
> another reason this bzgtmx commission pdf you bring is
> a remarkable document
> even if it doesnt mention a bzgtmx tripoint
> let alone the truest available bzgtmx tripoint
> position
> is the fact that the commission is even tripartite at
> all
> for this is indeed the first word we have of this
> commission as well as its only known work
>
> & til guatemala rejoins the bzgt renovation process
> this unilateral mexican documentation of gtmx is the
> only sign of cooperation & reintegration toward the
> fully shared goal of a real & fully legal bzgtmx
> tripoint
> as well as toward the separate bipartite goals of
> fully normal bzgt & bzmx borders
>
> for gtmx up to marker 107 doesnt have any such problem
> & didnt need belize for this pdf
>
> so i guess this commission began by bringing gtmx
> forward & really up to the state of the art as well as
> they could in 2003 in hopes that not only the bzgtmx
> tripoint but also both of its other 2 convergent
> segments would be upgraded sequentially
>
> but in fact this whole commission may have been more
> wishful thinking than anything else
> beyond what it tangibly did
> & most wishful of all on the part of mexico so she
> could get started already with a bzmx demarcation
> that would gain her this 200 meter strip about 20 km
> long from bzgtmx to the rio azul
>
> & the fact that we dont see a 2004 or 2005 sequel pdf
> regarding these other 2 borders
> nor anything at all new regarding them anywhere
> suggests to me that work remains stalled on them
> pending the final outcome of bzgtmx
> & the reentry of gt into the bzgt renovation
> since the new tripoint position about 200 meters to
> the east of gtmx marker 107 is in all likelihood going
> to be the terminal point for bzmx
> just as it is already fully expected to be the
> terminal point for the already fully marked but not
> yet fully legal bzgt