President Petro will initiate a process to “claim” the southern border in the middle of dispute with Peru on Santa Rosa Island

The President Gustavo Petro will begin the process to “claim” the southern border, in the middle of the territorial dispute with Peru For Santa Rosa Island.

The pronouncement of the president He is prior to his visit to Leticia this August 7, where he will lead the commemorative acts of the battle of Boyacá, which, after several years, will not be carried out in the center of the country.

“Tomorrow, Agost 7Or, I will start the process to claim the southern border of Colombia in Leticia, as I did with the maritime border in San Andrés ”, The president wrote in his X account.

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Earlier, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti had anticipated that the president would talk about “sovereignty and independence” Regarding this new limiting difference, after Peru attached the island to its territory.

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“By a law they cannot take away the limits with Peru, because that should have been done in a binational commission. That is where it had to be resolved or resolved if there was a conflict between the borders, but they did it through a law from Peru, ”said the official.

The chief of the political portfolio also It was emphatic that the government will defend its sovereignty.

“It turns out that the 1934 and 1922 treaty establishes that Colombia begins or ends in the depth of the river, and they are not doing it. NThey are leaving you on the sedimented side of the river, therefore, Leticia would lose the port, and would not have navigability. The issue is that it has to be delimited, not because there is a Peruvian bar, then it is from Peru, but because there has to be a delimitation, ”he said.

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It is worth mentioning that This territorial conflict arose in the last hours after a complaint by President Gustavo Petro, Who assured that: “The commemoration of the battle of Boyacá, which is the commemoration of national independence, moves to Leticia because, again, the Peru government has copied a territory that is from Colombia and has violated the Rio de Janeiro protocol, which ended [al conflicto]”

After the complaint of the Head of Statethe Colombian Foreign Ministry raised protest notes to the Government of Dina Boluarte, through the diplomatic channels, which were rejected “bluntly” by Lima.