the ambassadors Manuel Rodriguez Pictures y Harold Forsyth They resigned from their positions as permanent representatives of Peru before the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS), respectively, sources from El Comercio confirmed.
According to the sources, both Rodríguez Cuadros and Forsyth presented their resignation letters on August 7 addressed to the president himself. peter castle and not via the regular Torre Tagle conduit.
In addition, the same sources indicated that in both cases the decision would have been motivated not directly by the serious political situation that affects the president, but by the discomfort with the surprise appointment of Miguel Rodríguez Mackay as foreign minister, especially being so close to the meeting of the 52nd OAS General Assembly in Lima (October 5-7).
Manuel Rodriguez Pictureswho was also chancellor of the Republic, was appointed as permanent representative of Peru before the United Nations Organization in September of last year, while Harold Forsyth -former Peruvian ambassador to Japan- was appointed as Peruvian delegate to the OAS a month earlier.