announced on Monday that among the legislative powers to be requested by the Executive Branch from Congress is the authority to militarize Peru's most important border posts in order to strengthen security against crime.
"The legislative package to militarize the country's most important border posts is being prepared. We will approve it at the Council (of Ministers session), and part of it involves the legislative powers that will have to be requested from Congress," Belaunde told reporters at Air Group No. 8.
"An integral part of the security policy is to maintain strict control over our borders, where national sovereignty begins, and prevent these criminal scourges from infecting our country again," he added.
They had been left in a vulnerable situation in said country as a result of the twin earthquakes that occurred on June 24.
"A criminal who has served a prison sentence cannot simply be released in Peru. They will be deported immediately. The Armed Forces will provide all the support the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Interior Ministry require to ensure that we free our homeland from this scourge of crime," he stated emphatically.
During the election campaign, now-President Fujimori said that, as part of her proposal to protect Peruvian borders against international crime, she would strengthen border control under the Armed Forces' leadership and through the deployment of state-of-the-art technology.