The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that, through a diplomatic note, which was delivered to the Embassy of the Republic from ColombiaPeru expressed its “deep discomfort” over the repeated statements by the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.
“President Petro’s statements constitute an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Peru, especially serious in the context of acts of violence that have caused unfortunate loss of human life,” he said.
“They are not consistent with the traditional relations of mutual respect, friendship, cooperation and desire for integration that unite both states and peoples; and they deviate from the prudence that the successive governments of the Peru y Colombia we have cultivated regarding the internal political affairs of the other State, especially in complex and delicate situations”, stressed the Chancellery.
Petro defends Castillo
The Colombian President, Gustavo Petroreferred last weekend to the situation of the former president Pedro Castillo and assured that this was vacated by a “parliamentary coup.”
“I feel that he is a victim. He is a popularly elected president, that no judge has condemned, and that he has been captured by his own escort, the police, and they put him in prison, ”he said.
“Peru has been experiencing a social fracture for a long time between what is Lima and what is the sierra, with very different political processes, but here the popularly elected president is from the sierra and they knock him down, among other reasons, because he is from the sierra and poor “, he claimed.
Petro added that the accusations of corruption once morest Castillo They are not true, because, according to what he said, the former president of the coup is being prosecuted for rebellion and not for being corrupt. “I have no elements, but he is not prosecuted for corruption, but for rebellion,” he said.
