Chile hands protest note to Peruvian ambassador over Tacna mayor’s statements

Chilean Foreign Minister Alberto van Claveren summoned Peru’s ambassador to the neighboring southern country for a meeting this afternoon following statements by Tacna Mayor Pascual Guiz Bravo against the president. Gabriel Boricwhom he blamed for the current migration crisis on the border of both countries.

The newspaper reported Third from Chilewhich, moreover, revealed that the country’s foreign ministry was preparing a note of protest after the mayor of Tacna called the Chilean president “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” in an interview on Thursday with CNN. Chile.

“We must not allow a nameless and irresponsible person to carry problems to the border,” Guiza Bravo said in an interview with a television newscast.

The Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed around 19:00 this Thursday that Peruvian Ambassador Jaime Pomareda was received by his Deputy Foreign Minister Gloria de la Fuente “to deliver a note expressing the displeasure and concern of the Government of Chile” for the mayor’s allusions tacna President Borik “in the context of a migration situation that affects the comprehensive control of Chacalluta-Santa Rosa”.

“At the aforementioned meeting, the Deputy Secretary of State, along with expressing her dissatisfaction with the mayor’s inappropriate statements, emphasized the government’s standing position Chile for working together to find a solution to the migration crisis, which currently affects mainly the cities of Arica and tacna”, Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Ambassador Pomareda went to the Chilean Foreign Ministry at a time of high tension on the border, where hundreds of Colombian and Haitian migrants and more Venezuelans have been stuck for days, and the governments of both countries have not agreed on a humanitarian exit for these vulnerable citizens.

Tacna mayor’s statements ‘do not help in the slightest’

Formerly Carolina Toja, Minister of the Interior Chilespecified that the Ambassador of Peru would be received by De la Fuente and reiterated that Pomareda would be informed that “Chile will send a diplomatic note of protest” to the statements of Guiza Bravo.

“In recent years, migration has been a very serious problem in our region; in every country we solved it with great effort, and we did it in Chilestriving to be friendly to people who came from tragedy, upholding justice, the law […] and what we deserve among the authorities of different countries is the desire for cooperation so that each of us can fulfill our mission,” he said.

“Statements like what we hear today, mutual accusations of this kind do not help at all; Chile she has never done so, despite hosting an uncontrolled migratory flow many times. He will never make them, and that is what we are going to ask our neighbors for, so that we work more adequately. […] so that this process will be carried out with the least damage to the population and the desire to take care of the most vulnerable people,” he added.

Message from Otarola to Boric

This Thursday, Prime Minister Alberto Otarola addressed the President of Chile. Gabriel Boricask them not to “throw” the problem of migrants in Peru.

“We ask President Boric and other presidents to solve their problems and not throw them into our country. We are actively negotiating with the Chilean immigration authorities to resolve a problem that affects both countries,” he told reporters.

In addition, he recalled that the last government decree declared a state of emergency due to the migration crisis on the Peruvian-Chilean border. He pointed out that this measure would lead to the fact that some migrants would begin to “move very quickly to our country.”

“But the defense of our borders will be strengthened. He should be in Tacna by now Minister of the Interior, and tomorrow the Minister of Defense is coming so that the Armed Forces can cooperate,” he said.

On the other hand, the owner PKM He said that migrants in our country must regulate their situation, otherwise they will be expelled.

“Another supreme decree has been issued, in which foreigners who entered the country illegally are given a six-month period in order to come to the State Office and register their ten fingerprints. We want to know who they are in the country, how old they are, where, where they live, what their email address is, what their phone number is, because otherwise they won’t be able to stay in the country legally,” he said.