Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it has decided to permanently recall the Colombian ambassador due to the critical statements of President Gustavo Petro. He made derogatory remarks about the officials of the Republic of South America. writes about it TASS with a link to the agency’s website.
“The solution is a response to repeated intervention. [во внутренние дела] and the offensive words of President Gustavo Petro, who continued to distort the truth, not knowing that there was a coup carried out by ex-President Pedro Castillo in Peru on December 7, 2022.
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that Petro’s statements “seriously undermine the historically established relations of friendship, cooperation and mutual respect.”
After the recall of the ambassador, diplomatic relations between the countries will be at the level of chargé d’affaires.
18 February Peruvian Congress (Parliament) voted For declaring Colombian President Gustavo Petro persona non grata in connection with his critical remarks. Colombian President Gustavo Petro commented on the authorities’ reaction to the anti-government protests, saying that Peruvian police “walked like Nazis against their own people” in a speech. The Peruvian Parliament described Petro’s remarks as “insulting the national police and the entire republic”.
The Peruvian Congress filed an impeachment petition against President Dean Boluart. The parliamentarians accuse the new head of the country’s government of “moral incompetence”.