The president of Congress, José Williams (Avanza País), asked the Organization of American States (OAS) include that power of the State and other public and private institutions in the visit that the high-level mission will make to Peru.
In an official letter sent to the head of the OAS Permanent Council, Jan Marten Willem SchalkwijkWilliams Zapata also asked to have “long enough” that allows you to access the report of the Board of Directors, as well as the opinion of the various parliamentary groups.
“In this sense, I urge the High Level Group to meet, also, with personalities and institutions that can present their information and an overview of the situation of democratic institutions in Peru”he expressed.
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“It is necessary for the High-Level Group to hold meetings with the heads of the Judiciary, the Office of the Prosecutor of the Nation, the Constitutional Court, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Ombudsman’s Office, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, as well as leaders of political parties, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, the Private Anticorruption Council, the national press, business and labor unions, among other civil society groups, so that the mission has complete information on the reality of Peru”he added.
Finally, José Williams stressed that the actions of Congress and the country’s various institutions are carried out “according to the Constitution and the laws”as well as the Democratic Charter of the OAS and the international conventions against corruption.
It should be noted that the objective of the mission, made up of foreign ministers from different states, will be to analyze the situation in Peru, following up on the resolution of “support for the preservation of democratic institutions and representative democracy in Peru”.
The visit takes place after the request of the Government of Pedro Castillo to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter and thus, according to its articles 17 and 18, the OAS sends a group to the country to supervise the state of the institutions and report to the Permanent Council so that decisions can then be made in response to its needs.
The OAS high-level group will have eight people, including five foreign ministers and two deputy ministers from various countries. These will be the members:
- Santiago Cafiero, Foreign Minister of Argentina
- Eamon Courtenay, Foreign Minister of Belize
- Juan Carlos Holguin, Foreign Minister of Ecuador
- Mario Adolfo Búcaro, Foreign Minister of Guatemala
- Julio Cesar Arriola, Foreign Minister of Paraguay
- Laura Gil, Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs in Colombia
- Christian Guillermet, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica
- Eladio Loizaga, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay and representative of the OAS General Secretariat
