Lima, March 3 (EFE).- The Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, assured this Friday that the government of her country has the support of the “main international allies in America and Europe”, and that it has a strategy to combat “misinformation” which he said was generated globally during the political and social crisis that began in December.

“At the appropriate time, our main international allies in America and Europe have conveyed their support to Peru with regard to the defense of the rule of law, democracy and the protection and defense of human rights”, said Gervasi told the Congressional Foreign Relations Committee.

In this sense, he explained that he has spoken with a dozen high representatives of countries, among which he mentioned Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay and the United Kingdom.

He added that together with President Dina Boluarte, they received representatives of the European Union, “who expressed the support of their governments for the institutional democratic process in Peru”.

The Chancellor explained that her portfolio has a strategy to counter the “misinformation” generated internationally, after the dismissal of former President Pedro Castillo on December 7, and the accession to presidential command by his former vice-president, Dina Boluarte.

And that they seek to transmit “precise information” to the international community.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its 138 missions around the world, 64 embassies, 69 consulates and 5 permanent representations, works towards this objective while promoting and defending Peru’s strategic interests,” he said.

The Minister said that over the past three months, the objective of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been to demonstrate the “legitimate and constitutional” succession of the President, as well as to reaffirm before the international community Peru’s commitment to the full validity of international law, democracy and human rights, which he considered “fundamental pillars” of governability.

The mayoría de los integrantes de la Comisión de Relations Exteriores del Congreso, chaired by the conservadora María Carmen Alva, congratulated the management of the canciller “frente a la responsabilidad de informar a la comunidad internacional sobre el golpe de Estado del ex-president Pedro Castillo y sus consequences”.

However, legislator Silvana Robles, of the Marxist Peru Libre party, said that “an isolationist policy” has been applied in the country, and asked if this was going to happen with Mexico and Colombia, the Apostolic Nuncio, the States States and the United Nations.

Gervasi replied that the United States supported Peru’s democratic position, that the Apostolic Nuncio had raised the issue of human rights, on which there was no disagreement, and that the United Nations request came from a group of freelancers asking for information.

He was referring to a letter sent this week to Gervasi by eight special rapporteurs of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in which they ask for an explanation of the complaints concerning the excessive use of force to suppress the anti-government protests that began in December in which 70 people died, according to various sources.

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