The Peruvian Foreign Minister, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, has summoned the ambassadors of Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina in the Andean country, as well as the Chargé d’Affaires of Colombia, after their countries signed a joint communiqué expressing their concern over the dismissal and arrest of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.
«Today I summoned the ambassadors of Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina and the Colombian Chargé d’Affaires. I reiterated to them that the presidential succession is constitutional and that the decisions of former president Castillo on December 7 materialized a coup d’état», said Gervasi in a message on the social network Twitter.
As detailed by the head of the Peruvian diplomacy, she has delivered formal notes addressed to the foreign ministers of these countries in which the Peruvian government transmits its reaction to the joint statement issued by their governments on the political situation facing the country.
These events take place one day after the Governments of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina issued a communiqué expressing their concern for the removal and detention of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, calling on the Andean country’s institutions to respect «the will of the citizens at the polls».
«Our governments call on all the actors involved in the previous process to prioritize the will of the citizens that was pronounced at the polls. This is the way to interpret the scope and meaning of the notion of democracy as set forth in the Inter-American Human Rights System», the Mexican, Colombian, Bolivian and Argentinean executives stated in the letter.
In this sense, they exhorted the powers of the State to refrain from «reversing the popular will expressed by free suffrage», requesting in turn that they «fully respect the human rights of President Pedro Castillo and guarantee him judicial protection».
