Eduardo Ferrero Costaformer minister of External relationshipsdeclared that “the decisions to declare persona non grata and give 72 hours for the Mexican ambassador, Edward Monroy, leave the country. However, he maintained that the Aztec country misqualified the fact of asylum.
“Diplomatic asylum is granted when a fact or act of a political nature has been committed according to practice, doctrine, and national and international legislation and is not granted when a common crime has been declared and is only granted when this is the mission of the diplomatic headquarters or residence. That is the regional principle. Constitutionthe Paracas Conventionto recognize the right to asylum,” he commented in Things as they are.
It also indicated that, as stated in the Caracas Convention (1954) as the Asylum Law (approved in 2002) corresponds to the isolating state, in this case Mexico, to qualify the fact as a political or common crime. “Mexico has described it as a crime or political fact, Peru has to accept, that is the national and international legislation to diplomatic asylum.”
However, he maintained that Mexico has “misclassified the fact” because “in reality it has not taken into account that asylum is granted when there has been persecution” where there is an emergency or in danger the safety, life and freedom of a person”.
“Mrs [Lilia Paredes] I could leave the embassy to go through the city since it only has a preliminary investigation for an alleged criminal organization. It has types of impediments for national and tax legislation, but it is not a political persecution. Whoever decides that, whether it is political or not, is the asylum state,” said Ferrero Costa.
On the departure of the ambassador of Mexico, pointed out that the declaration of ‘persona non grata’ is a right of the Peruvian state. “That implies that Mexico withdraw its ambassador for a period of 72 hours”. In this line, Ferrero Coast rejected the attitudes of the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwhich he considered an “intervention in internal affairs of Peru.”
“I think it is very wrong to grant asylum quickly, but according to the Caracas Convention, once asylum is granted at the request of the receiving country, safe-conduct must be granted immediately. Peru is fulfilling an international obligation even if we don’t like it. That is the legal reality, but Mexico has not taken it into account,” the former minister declared in Things as they are.
In this sense, he expressed his concern about the intervention of Mexico y Colombia in the internal situation of Peru and fears complications in diplomatic relations between the two countries. “Both are denying the legitimacy of the vice president who is now constitutional president following the constitutional succession established by our Constitution,” she added.
Persona non grata to ambassador of Mexico
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Cecilia Gervasiannounced this Tuesday that he declared himself a person non grata to the ambassador of Mexico in Peru, Paul Monroy, and is given 72 hours to leave the country. Likewise, he pointed out that the safe-conduct has been granted to lilia paredes and their children, who received asylum from Mexico.
“The Government has declared the ambassador of Mexico in Peru, Pablo Monroy Conesa, persona non grata, due to the repeated expressions of the highest authorities of that country regarding the political situation in Peru that constitute interference in our internal affairs and that therefore both are in violation of the principle of non-intervention,” the chancellor reported in a brief message to the media.
Gervasi stated that the government of Mexico He has also been informed of the safe-conduct for the president’s wife Pedro Castillo and their children stressing that there was no political persecution against them.