Peru Urges Bolivia To
Stop Meddling
Peruvian President Alan
Garcia Thursday urged
Bolivia's government to
stop interfering his
country's internal
affairs.
Garcia told the press
that nobody should
intervene in other
countries' internal
policy and he was
irritated after mutual
condemnations between
him and Bolivian
President Evo Morales.
But Garcia said he
admired the Bolivian
authorities for
expressing their will to
repair the bilateral
ties.
Tension between the two
countries began in early
June when Morales
criticized Garcia as
"fatter and less
anti-imperialist" and
Peru's government
denounced "the verbal
excess."
On June 28, Morales
alleged that the United
States was setting up a
military base in Peru.
Peru denied the
assertion.
Bolivian Foreign
Minister David
Choquehuanca Wednesday
said that the conflict
between the two sides
had been solved and they
were both willing to
restore their
relationship.
Garcia said that his
country would not meddle
in other nations'
internal affairs or help
any opposition power of
foreign governments,"
because that (will)
destroy the
possibilities of
integration in the
continent."
Other countries should
not intervene in
Peruvian issues either,
he added.
If Bolivia stops the
inappropriate
expressions, the two
countries will strength
their "brotherhood and
fraternity," Garcia
said.
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