Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer said that our country acted in correspondence to the Diplomatic Asylum Convention of 1954, and in accordance with the Political Constitution of Peru, regarding the case of Nadine Herediawho took refuge in the Embassy of Brazil and obtained a safe -conduct to leave the country.
Schialer said that, in the line of our foreign policy, Peru “scrupulously fulfilled its international obligations, as corresponds to a democratic country before the international community.”
The Foreign Minister reported that the Brazil Ambassador in Peru communicated him, on Tuesday, April 15, that Mrs. Nadine Heredia and her youngest son entered the headquarters of her embassy at 11:15 am to request diplomatic asylum.
In the afternoon, the Brazilian ambassador delivered to Foreign Minister Schialer at the Torre Tagle Palace the diplomatic note that accounts for such request. Likewise, in the aforementioned note Brazil informed Peru that, by virtue of articles I, II and IV of the Diplomatic Asylum of 1954, known as the “Caracas Convention”, decided to grant asylum to Mrs. Heredia and her youngest son; and requested that Peru grant him the guarantees provided for in article V of the aforementioned Convention and the corresponding safeguards to immediately abandon the Peruvian territory and enter the Brazilian territory.
“In that sense, under article XII of the Caracas Convention, Peru as a territorial State, has the obligation to act without delay and, in accordance with the aforementioned article to give immediately, except force majeure, the necessary guarantees referred to in article V and the corresponding safe -conduct,” said the Foreign Minister.
Schialer also stressed that article 36 of the Peruvian Constitution refers that the State recognizes asylum and accepts the asylum rating granted by the ascating government. “It does not call it, it does not evaluate it; he accepts it,” he said.
Therefore, the Foreign Minister stressed that “the Peruvian State, as a territorial state, was in both international and also Peruvian constitutional to accept the asylum rating granted by the Government of Brazil as a asilate state.”
On the other hand, the Foreign Minister pointed out that the Brazilian embassy was “full and totally informed” about Mrs. Heredia’s judgment for the crime of money laundering, given by the Third National Collegiate Criminal Court of the Judiciary.
Extradition can be requested
He emphasized that the fact that Mrs. Nadine Heredia has received asylum in Brazil does not exempt her from facing justice in Peru. “That has not been so in any previous case and is not given in this case,” he said. He indicated that “the Judiciary, in the position that corresponds to him, can promote an extradition of the lady.”
As is known, the former first lady, Nadine Heredia, and her youngest son, left on Wednesday 16 of the present, the national territory aboard an aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force. The Brazilian Government has realized the arrival of both careful people and has announced that they are currently carrying out the migratory procedures required by the corresponding Brazilian regulations.
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