A few days after leaving the Adrianzen Cabinetthe former foreign minister Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea He was decorated —this Tuesday 10th— by Rafael López Aliaga, mayor of Lima, who awarded him the Medal of Lima“for his important contribution to the country,” he said. during the ceremony held in the municipal palace.
“In gratitude for his valuable contribution as Foreign Minister of Peru, Dr. Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea Franco “He was awarded in recognition of his outstanding professional career and for his valuable contribution as a promoter of municipal autonomy through the defense of municipal ordinances,” the Municipality of Lima reported in a statement.
At the beginning of September, Elmer Schialer Salcedo sworn in as new chancellor replacing Javier González-Olaechea. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted by President Dina Boluarte at the Government Palace.
Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea He was in office for nearly nine months. From November 7 until today, September 3. One of the questions against him came after the extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS)in which the foreign ministers of the member countries met to discuss the results of the electoral process in Venezuela.
The outgoing foreign minister raised his voice in protest and spoke angrily about the Venezuelan elections in which he singled out Edmundo Gonzalez As president of Venezuela, he also denounced that “the electoral process began with fraud from the first day” by annulling the candidacy of Maria Corina Machado.
After finishing his speech, the president of the Permanent Council of the OAS, Ronald Sanderswho chaired the session, called the chancellor’s attention to the length of his speech and the way he expressed himself.
At his farewell ceremony, Gonzalez-Olaechea He decided to close his administration with a poem which he recited before the dozens of guests who attended this activity at the Torre Tagle Palace.
In the third verse, the former chancellor recited the following: “Believer and stubborn lover of Peru / you never longed for voluntary exile / since you had your stubbornness chained to reason / listening to what your silence told you.”
He advocates for a new trip abroad for Dina Boluarte
At the end of the ceremony at Torre Tagle, Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea He spoke out on the request submitted by the president Dina Boluarte to Congress to travel to the United States from September 21 to 26 to attend the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“Three days before the change of some members of the cabinet, we have already sent the proposal to the Presidency and to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the report and the request to Congress, which, possibly, will be sent to the Legislature with some variation or something like this. I hope that the honorable Congress of the Republic will grant the corresponding permission to the president,” he said.
