He Government responded to the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrowho accused Peru of appropriating its territory and violate the treaty of the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro. Through a statement, the Chancellery He rejected what was stated by the president and stressed that the “territory is under the sovereignty and jurisdiction” of the Peru.
“The Government of Peru expresses its strongest and most energetic protest regarding the statements of the Government of Colombia, in relation to the sovereign rights and acts of jurisdiction that Peru legitimately and legally exercises, in a public and permanent manner, for more than a century, about the integrity of its national territory,” said the Foreign Ministry.
This territorial constituency is under the sovereignty and jurisdiction of our country, in accordance with the international political limits established in the Treaty of Limits and Free River Navigation between Peru and Colombia, signed on March 24, 1992, as well as in the demarcation work of the Mixed Demark Commission of Limits, “he said.
