The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonia Urrejola, and her counterpart from Peru, Foreign Minister César Landa, signed a declaration that celebrates the poem that Pablo Neruda dedicated to Machu Picchu, highlighting the bicentennial of bilateral relations and cooperation ties between both countries.
According to the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foreign ministers unveiled a plaque with verses from the poem “Alturas de Machu Picchu” by the Chilean Nobel Prize for Literature, in the Manuel Chávez Ballón Site Museum of the Inca sanctuary.
Likewise, they signed a declaration that celebrates Neruda’s literary work and highlights the bicentennial of diplomatic relations between Peru and Chile, in addition to their ties “of friendship, cooperation and desire for integration that unite both governments and peoples.”
During the meeting, in the Peruvian region of Cuzco, Landa and Urrejola confirmed that the IV Binational Presidential and Cabinet Meeting will be held in Santiago between November 28 and 29.
During these two days, according to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry, the governments of the two countries will adopt “new commitments aimed at deepening integration for the benefit of both peoples.”
Until now, three presidential meetings and binational cabinets have been held between Peru and Chile since the first in 2017 and successively in 2018 and 2019, to later be suspended in the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The fourth meeting was confirmed last August in Colombia, where a delegation from the Peruvian government attended the investiture ceremony of Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
On that occasion, the then Peruvian Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Rodríguez Mackay, and Urrejola agreed to establish October 13 as the “Peruvian-Chilean Friendship Day” in order to strengthen ties between the two peoples.
The one who could not attend Petro’s inauguration was the Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, who was denied by Congress the permission that the rulers of the Andean country must obtain from the Chamber for any trip abroad.
Again, the Peruvian Parliament denied this week the authorization that Castillo requested to travel to Europe, where he was scheduled to meet with authorities of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, and to the Vatican, where he was scheduled to meet with Pope Francis.
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