Thirteen former foreign ministers and former deputy foreign ministers of Peru this Wednesday accused Mexico of “violation of a legally binding international treatyby refusing to hand over the interim presidency of the Pacific Alliance.

In a joint statement published on social media by the Peruvian Foreign Ministry, the former high-ranking officials recalled that the member states of the Pacific Alliance (Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru) “undertook, through their Framework Agreement, to comply with international legal obligations, such as an annual rotation of the interim Chairman of the mechanism is prescribed.

“Mexico, refusing to transfer this presidency to Peru, violates a legally binding international treaty.”sentenced.

They also added that they “strongly” support the measure taken by the government of Peru, which announced on Tuesday the temporary chairmanship of the Pacific Alliance through a message to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Colombia and Chile, in which he offered to consult on the matter and warned the country of the Aztecs that informal transfer would “incur international responsibility”.

“We believe that as a result of these consultations, the transfer of the interim presidency can be carried out immediatelythey confirmed, recalling that this proposal is based on the dispute settlement mechanism provided for in the Pacific Alliance Framework Agreement.

The document was signed by former Foreign Ministers and Deputy Foreign Ministers Allan Wagner, Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, Gonzalo Gutierrez, Ricardo Luna, Alfonso Rivero, Hugo Palma, Alejandro Gordillo, Eduardo Ponce, Jorge Voto, Jose Antonio Arrospide, Hugo de Zela, Fernando. Rojas and Claudio de la Puente.