The Peruvian Foreign Ministry has issued a communiqué to the Government of Colombia on Monday to convey the «deep discomfort» of the Peruvian Executive in view of the «repeated statements» of President Gustavo Petro on the political situation in the country.
«President Petro’s statements constitute an unacceptable interference in Peru’s internal affairs, especially serious in the context of acts of violence that have caused unfortunate loss of human lives,» reads the letter issued by the Peruvian diplomacy.
According to the Peruvian Government, the words of the Colombian President «are not consistent» with the traditional relations of «mutual respect, friendship, cooperation and will for integration» that unite both States and peoples.
«(The statements) depart from the prudence that successive governments of Peru and Colombia have cultivated with respect to the internal political affairs of the other State, especially in complex and delicate situations,» the Peruvian Foreign Ministry has stated.
The words of the Peruvian diplomacy come after Petro claimed that former president Pedro Castillo had been deposed by «a parliamentary coup».
«I feel that he is a victim. He is a popularly elected president, that no judge has condemned, and who has been captured by his own bodyguard, the Police, and they put him in prison», said Petro in statements picked up by RPP radio station.
«Peru has been living for a long time a social fracture between Lima and the highlands, with very different political processes, but here the popularly elected president is from the highlands and he was overthrown among other reasons because he is from the highlands and poor», he added.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
