‘You can put ugly’: Benedetti gives details about dispute with Peru of Santa Rosa Island

The Binational controversy between Colombia and Peru for the dispute of the sovereignty of the Santa Rosa Islandlocated in the Amazon, has a new episode, because the Interior Minister Armando Benedettihe spoke about the country’s proceeding.

“I’m not talking about war. What I say is that if diplomatic channels are not supplied, the thing can be put ugly“, said the minister, in statements for the ‘Blu Radio’ station.

The official gave more details about this territorial dispute after the President Gustavo Petro ensure that neighboring countries violated the Rio de Janeiro protocol, with which the Colombo-Peruana War was terminated, developed between 1932 and 1933.

“The treaty says that the islands that are formed after 1929 must be discussed in that commission. That did not happen. They simply released a law and decided that it was theirs”Benedetti added.

(You can read: How Peruvian is Santa Rosa? This is life on the Amazon Island that Colombia asks for).

Therefore, although the medium is removed a war action, the head of this portfolio said that “If diplomatic channels are not supplied, the thing can be put ugly“, because the case could be carried before the International Court of Justice of The Hague.

Likewise, Benedetti talked about the risks of Colombia losing this territory, explaining that this would leave the country “No port in Leticia and without navigability in the river. That is sovereignty, and here nobody will play to lose“

An disrespect for agreements?

President Gustavo Petro said Thursday in the border city of Leticia that his government does not recognize the sovereignty of Peru or the authorities of that country in the Santa Rosa Island, a formation on the Amazon river that marks the boundary between the two countries.

“Colombia does not recognize the sovereignty of Peru on the so -called Santa Rosa Island and ignores de facto authorities imposed in the area“Petro said in Leticia, located in front of Santa Rosa, where he added that the allocation of said island and others emerged in the Amazon River after the treaty signed in 1929, must be discussed in a binational commission and, ultimately, in international courts.

As a response, the President of Peru, Dina Boluartehe sent a message of calm on Thursday to the population of his country in which he assured that there is no borderline topic pending dealing with Colombia, after his Colombian counterpart claimed that Peru had supposedly appropriated an Amazon island on the border between the two countries.

(Keep reading: Santa Rosa, the small island that unleashed impasted between Colombia and Peru).

From Japan, where Boluarte makes an official visit, the president sent a video in which he said that the sovereignty of the country on the island claimed by Colombia, where the population of Santa Rosa de Loreto is located, is not in conflict and there is no topic pending to deal with “by no means“

“There is nothing to deal with with our brother country from the north, with our Colombian brothers, in no way“Boluarte said by adding that the 1922 Treaty reconfirmed in the Rio de Janerio protocol of 1934 shows that the Chinería Islandlocated in front of the Colombian city of Leticiahe is Peruvian and is within his national sovereignty.

Simultaneously, the Government of Peru reaffirmed that “There is no discussion“On the Peruvian sovereignty of this Amazon District, in response to Petro’s statements.

(Keep reading: In mid -September, sovereignty of Santa Rosa Island would be defined in the Amazon).

He Peruvian Prime Minister Eduardo Aranahe read from Santa Rosa de Loreto a statement of seven points signed by President Boluarte addressed to Petro, who was visiting Leticia, on the other side of the Amazon River to insist on her claim.

“We reiterate that there is no discussion about the sovereignty of Peru in the district of Santa Rosa de Loreto or any of our borders“Arana said” categorically “rejecting the statements of the Colombian president.

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*With EFE information