AFP | | Posted by Sreelakshmi B
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned Thursday that he would skip an Asia-Pacific summit in america in November due to a diplomatic rift with Peru.
Lopez Obrador mentioned that he didn’t wish to take part as a result of Peru would obtain the rotating presidency of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) discussion board on the San Francisco assembly.
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“I am not going to attend the San Francisco (summit) as a result of we would not have relations with Peru,” the leftist President mentioned at his morning information convention.
Tensions between the 2 Latin American nations flared after Peru’s leftist then-president Pedro Castillo was ousted and arrested in December for trying to dissolve parliament and rule by decree.
Lopez Obrador has been certainly one of Castillo’s most fervent international supporters, and refused to acknowledge his successor Dina Boluarte, calling her an “usurper.”
In response, Peru expelled the Mexican ambassador and recalled its envoy to Mexico.
“In fact we would like Pedro Castillo to be launched as a result of he has been unjustly imprisoned,” Lopez Obrador mentioned Thursday.
