Monday, March 26, 2012

'Peru isn't anyone’s colony,' Humala says over denial to UK's warship

Peru's President Ollanta Humala said today his country won’t tolerate any foreign impositions on its internal affairs. The Andean leader alluded to the resolution to prevent the UK's HMS Montrose frigate from docking at El Callao port in Lima after ending its patrol mission in the disputed Malvinas Islands. 

“Peru is not anyone’s colony,” Humala said in a television interview.

Last week, Britain criticized the leader’s decision to cancel the warship’s visit. Peru responded by saying the visit was canceled out of solidarity with Argentina in its dispute with Britain over the Islands sovereignty.

Nonetheless, Humala reiterated there was no diplomatic tension between Peru and the United Kingdom.

“There has been no diplomatic problem between Great Britain and Peru”, he stressed and concluded, "Relations with Britain will continue moving forward.”