Peru’s Foreign Minister revealed what will be the position of Pedro Castillo’s government on Venezuela

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Hector Béjar, advanced this Monday regarding Venezuela that the brand new administration of Pedro Castillo will work with the international community to to achieve an “understanding of the various tendencies” which exist in this country, but “without intervening in its internal policy” and always “against the blockades”.

“We will contribute with the countries of Europe which are already working there and with other Latin Americans to understand the various political tendencies that exist in Venezuela without interfering in their internal politics. We will promote democratic renewal in Venezuela», Declared Béjar.

After the investiture ceremony held at the Palacio de Torre Tagle, in Lima and after being asked about the government’s new position on Cuba Yes Venezuela, Béjar pointed out that “For all countries” Peru will always defend Human rights and the dialogue among the peoples.

“We don’t have to have internal problems. We are against repression in Peru and in all countries, our policy must be democratic so that there is dialogue and not confrontation“, Noted Béjar, who is committed to pursuing the policies”multilateral“, that the previous government”did”.

“In Venezuela, there is a universal social security system and a universal education system. Our concern is that not only in Venezuela but in Peru and in many other countries, the rights of marginalized people are respected, preserved and that the level of social protection improves. So for that we have to get there harmony on our continent, ”he explained.

“Our policy is against unilateral sanctions and against blockades. Venezuela is a blocked country, we will contribute with the countries of Europe and Latin America to the understanding of the political tendencies in Venezuela without intervening in their domestic policy», Béjar stressed to the press.

During his meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza, Béjar underlined that the meeting made it possible to address first of all the questions of migration. As it concerns rowing charles, the person appointed in 2019 by the Leader of the Opposition Juan Guaido carry out diplomatic work in Peru, he said he didn’t know who “this man is”. “I don’t know him,” he admits.

First round of congressional talks

While, the new Prime Minister of Peru, Guido Bellido, indicated that the first talks with parliamentary groups have already started with a view to presenting the new cabinet to Parliament.

“We must speak, we must dialogue. Today, the democratic mechanism is listening, come to agreements to solve the country’s problems and sit down again, support each other to solve the country’s problems, we are on this pathSaid Bellido, according to Newspaper one.

For its part, the opposition threatened to present a motion of censure if the new head of state did not rectify and change these ministers. “In relation to terrorism.” “We demand the change of ministers who are linked to terrorism. The ministers questioned must leave, also the Prime Minister if it is true of what they reproach him“, Said the spokesperson for the conservative Popular Renovation, Jorge Montoya, who also asks Castillo to end his promise of a Constituent Assembly with which to craft a new Magna Carta.

This motion of censure “is an option at the end of the list“, there are “much beforeSays Montoya, who remarked to television cameras that “all parties in general“They let Castillo know that they did not accept the Constituent Assembly because”represents the country, not a faction”.

New Peruvian cabinet started with controversy after prosecutor’s office started an investigation against Prime Minister Bellido for an alleged crime of apology for terrorism in connection with a series of activities carried out in favor of the Shining Path.

The other designated is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hector Béjar, university professor, writer and sociologist, founder in the 1960s of the short-lived Peruvian guerrilla warfare of the National Liberation Army (ELN) during the dictatorship of General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975).

The new government must be supported by Congress, which has an opposition majority. With the exception of the ruling Free Peru and the other leftist party, Ensemble pour le Pérou, the others rejected Bellido’s nomination. In the event of failure, the Parliament can present a motion of censure for “moral incapacity” which must be approved by two thirds of the chamber.

(With information from Europa Press)

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