Unasur summit to provide Humala opportunity to boost integration

A summit of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, planned in Lima this month will be a good opportunity for incoming President Ollanta Humala to launch regional integration efforts, said Javier Arias Stella, a former Peruvian ambassador to the UN and minister of Foreign Affairs during the Belaunde administration (1980-83). Humala, elected in the run-off June [...]

Peru takes arms reduction proposal to governments in the region

Peru’s minister of Transport, Enrique Cornejo, was in Brasilia Nov.10 to present President Alan García’s continental arms reduction proposal to the Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister, Celso Amorín, and to the presidents of the Congress and the Senate. A day earlier, in Sao Paulo, Cornejo met President Lula da Silva. The proposal will be included in [...]

President García travels to Ecuador for UNASUR Summit

Peru President Alan García left early today, August 10, for Quito to attend the Union of South American Nations Summit, UNASUR, and also the swearing in of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for another term of office under Ecuador’s new constitution. When the UNASUR’s founding treaty was signed May 23, 2008, in Brasilia, Chilean President Michelle [...]