The Government of Peru summons the ambassadors of Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia for their support for Castillo

MADRID, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Peruvian Foreign Minister, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, has summoned the ambassadors of Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina in the Andean country, as well as the Colombian business manager, after their countries signed a joint statement expressing their concern about the removal and detention of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.

"Today I summoned the ambassadors of Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina and the Colombian business manager. I reiterated that the presidential succession is constitutional and that the decisions of former President Castillo on December 7 materialized a coup d'état," Gervasi asserted in a message on the social network Twitter.

As detailed by the head of Peruvian diplomacy, she has delivered formal notes addressed to the foreign ministers of those countries in which the Government of Peru conveys its reaction to the joint statement issued by their governments on the political situation facing the country.

These events take place one day after the governments of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina published a statement expressing their concern over the dismissal and detention of the former president of Peru Pedro Castillo, calling on the institutions of the Andean country to respect "the citizen will at the polls.

"Our governments call on all the actors involved in the previous process to prioritize the will of the citizens that was pronounced at the polls. It is the way of interpreting the scope and meaning of the notion of democracy included in the Inter-American System of Human Rights ", the Mexican, Colombian, Bolivian and Argentine executives stated in the letter.

In this sense, they urged the powers of the State to refrain from "reversing the popular will expressed with free suffrage", requesting in turn that they fully respect "the Human Rights of President Pedro Castillo and guarantee him judicial protection".