The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)confirmed this Tuesday that the Pacific Alliance summit scheduled for this Friday in the country is suspended due to the refusal of the Peruvian Congress to allow the attendance of President Pedro Castillo.
“The meeting of the Pacific Alliance was suspended because the president of Peru was not allowed to attend and he is the presidency (of the organization), he was going to receive it here, and we are exploring the possibility of holding an act in Peru”declared Lopez Obrador in his daily press conference.
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Despite the suspension of the summit, The Mexican president confirmed the visit of the other member presidents, the Chilean Gabriel Boric, and the Colombian Gustavo Petro, as well as the ruler of Ecuador, Guillermo Lassowho seeks to join the commercial bloc.
The appointment was scheduled for November 25 in Mexico City.
On Monday, AMLO had already requested that the meeting be cancelled. “It is very likely that the meeting of the countries of the Pacific Alliance will be canceled because they did not give permission to attend the president of Peru, and then we are going to postpone or look for another option.is that I am the transitional or temporary president of that alliance and it is up to the president of Peru to receive the presidency, so if he does not come, who do I hand him over to?” he said AMLO in his Mañanera broadcast daily on social networks.
He maintained that one of the ways for the meeting to take place is for the meeting to take place in Peru; however, he added that this plan would have to be consulted.
“We could hold a meeting in Peru because I have to hand over the presidency to Pedro Castillo. That may be an option, do it there, but I have to consult. What I do not consider appropriate is to hold a meeting without the president who should receive the post being there ”, manifested AMLO.
AMLO He said that he will still hold bilateral meetings with other presidents of the Pacific alliance who visit Mexico.
“I am going to have bilateral meetings, if the president of Chile comes, if the president of Costa Rica comes, the president of Honduras comes, but not necessarily this meeting of the Pacific Alliance”.
The Pacific Alliance was born as an economic and development initiative between four Latin American nations: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
With information from EFE