The government agency added that the
continuous expressions by President Petro "have seriously deteriorated the historic relationship of friendship, cooperation, and mutual respect that has existed between Peru and Colombia."
Therefore, the entity affirmed that the Peruvian Government has reacted "in a balanced, progressive, and proportional manner, in accordance with diplomatic practice and taking into account the close relationship that unites it with Colombia, for more than 200 years."
It also stated that, given the withdrawal of Peru's Ambassador, diplomatic relations between both countries are formally at the level of charge d'affaires.
The
communiqué ended by hoping
"that the close and bicentennial bilateral relationship with Colombia resumes its path within the framework of mutual respect, norms, principles, and values that govern coexistence between States."