Colombia and Ecuador will meet next month to standardize their radar systems in response to complaints that Colombia is violating its neighbor's airspace, Colombia's foreign minister said, according to Reuters. "We will in April move forward with synchronizing the radar systems of the two countries," Carolina Barco told reporters late on Friday after denying accusations that Colombian military planes flew into Ecuador in early March looking for leftist rebels. It was the latest in a string of border incidents that has raised tensions between the two Andean countries. "According to Colombian radar, the air force did not enter Ecuadorean airspace," Barco said. "It is necessary to standardize the two radar systems." Both countries said they will use a scheduled meeting on frontier issues to address the radar problem in order to avoid any more airspace disputes. Colombia often runs military operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the southwestern part of the country near Ecuador. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe apologized to Ecuador in February after Colombian aircraft fired missiles into Ecuadorean territory in a January operation against rebels.
