Peru returns to claim Pacific Alliance leadership from Mexico

Peru claimed that on Tuesday Mexico, Colombia and Chile handover to the Andean nation “without further delay” of an interim presidency pacific alliance and reaffirmed that if a State fails to do so, it will entail “international responsibility”.

Government of Mexico chaired by Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused to transfer leadership of the trade and economic bloc to Perubecause he believes that the Andean nation has a “fictitious government” headed by President Dina Boluarte, who came to power after the resignation in December of Pedro Castillo, who tried to dissolve the Congress.

Since February last year, the Peruvian government has asked Mexico to cede Interim Presidency of the Pacific Alliancewhich corresponds to this year’s transfer to the Andean country.

Last December, Lopez Obrador said that there are no conditions go to Peru to take over as president of the Pacific Alliance.

“In January of this year, Peru was supposed to become president of Pro Tempore. However, due to this political position of the President of Mexico, until now harms the peoples of the Pacific Alliance because (…) they don’t want to give us an interim presidency of the Pacific Alliance,” Boluarte said last February.

The Peruvian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Boluarte government had offered to hold diplomatic consultations with members of the Pacific Alliance in order to effect the transfer of the group’s interim presidency. leadership that Mexico is due to hand over to Peru in November.

During the consultations, the Government of Peru indicated that it invoked an article of the Vienna Convention on Treaties.

<violation of an international obligation on the part of a state, for example, a refusal to transfer the interim chairmanship of the Pacific Alliance would entail the international responsibility of said state,” the local foreign ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that Peru “retained its ability to use the political and legal means at its disposal to achieve full compliance with the international obligations contained in Pacific Alliance Framework Agreement“.

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The Pacific Alliance is an integration mechanism based on the free movement of goods, services and capital, aiming to become a force targeting Asian markets. With a population of over 230 million people, The alliance is positioned as the eighth largest economy in the worldrepresenting 41% of the gross domestic product of Latin America and the Caribbean.

(According to information from Reuters)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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