The head of the Ministerial Cabinet, Alberto Otárolareferred to the desire of the Government of the United States that the president In Boluarte close an agreement with the Congress of your country to advance the elections and said that the Foreign Ministry is “processing” that statement.
In dialogue with Canal N, he indicated that the Ministry of Foreign Relations will issue a “professional statement” and considered that the affirmation of the undersecretary of the Department of State for Latin America, Brian Nichols, is an opinion of a “friendly government” as USA.
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I think the ambassador [sic] He knows our reality and his statement is being processed at the Foreign Ministry. It is an opinion of a friendly government like the United States.”he expressed.
“It seems to me that the Foreign Ministry is going to react to the statements. This is going to be a professional statement, as it always has been. In the case of the other presidents, we are facing a problem generated by themselves “he added.
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In this sense, Otárola Peñaranda remarked that an international “false and implausible narrative” regarding the events that have occurred in Peru after the coup d’état of Pedro Castillo and that little by little this situation is changing.
“It is an issue that we have to deal with at that level [de Cancillería]. On the political issue, what the Government has done has been to present its bills. I understand that Congress is going to meet on Friday and will discuss this issue. Meanwhile we are not governing on automatic pilot, we are making decisions, we have to meet the great needs of the population “he stressed.
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As recalled, the Government of the United States expressed this Tuesday its desire that In Boluarte reach an agreement with Congress to advance the general elections and put an end to the crisis unleashed by the ex-president’s failed self-coup Pedro Castillo.
“We hope that President Boluarte and Congress can reach an agreement to advance the elections and that Peruvians can trust democracy”said Brian Nichols during a talk at the George Washington University in the US capital.
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Nichols, who was the United States ambassador to Peru between 2014 and 2017, said that the successive changes of government in recent years in the Andean country demonstrate “the fragility of democracy” Peruvian and that Castillo’s attempt was “clearly unconstitutional”.
For this reason, he affirmed that the Government of Joe Biden observa “carefully” events in Peru and supports “Efforts to promote democratic order” in the country.