The Government of Peru conveys to Colombia its "deep discomfort" over Petro's words in favor of Castillo

According to the Colombian president, the former Peruvian president would have been deposed by "a parliamentary coup"

MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru has issued a statement to the Government of Colombia on Monday to convey the "deep discomfort" of the Peruvian Executive before the "repeated statements" of President Gustavo Petro on the political situation of the country.

"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," wields the letter released by Peruvian diplomacy.

According to the Government of Peru, the words of the Colombian president "are not consistent" with the traditional relations of "mutual respect, friendship, cooperation and desire for integration" that unite both States and peoples.

"(The statements) deviate from the prudence that the successive governments of Peru and Colombia have cultivated regarding the internal political affairs of the other State, especially in complex and delicate situations," said the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The words of Peruvian diplomacy take place after Petro maintained that former president Pedro Castillo had been deposed by "a parliamentary coup."

"I feel that he is a victim. He is a popularly elected president, who has not been sentenced by a judge, and who has been captured by his own escort, the Police, and they put him in prison," Petro said in statements collected by the RPP radio station.

"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 added.