{"id":32306,"date":"2019-07-11T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32306"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T03:25:24","slug":"president-trump-highlights-u-s-peru-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32306","title":{"rendered":"President Trump highlights U.S.-Peru friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/portal.andina.pe\/EDPfotografia3\/Thumbnail\/2019\/07\/08\/000599137W.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 11 (NNN-ANDINA) &#8212; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/people\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. President Donald  Trump<\/a>\u00a0highlighted the solid friendship ties between Peru and his country, which are based on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/ingles\/noticia-peru-highlights-oas-role-in-defense-of-democracy-fight-against-corruption-756916.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">common defense of democracy,\u00a0<\/a>free trade, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/ingles\/noticia-president-a-true-rule-of-law-exists-in-peru-no-political-persecution-733636.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">rule of law<\/a>, Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Hugo de Zela affirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to De Zela, Trump also underlined the signing of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ustr.gov\/trade-agreements\/free-trade-agreements\/peru-tpa\" target=\"_blank\">Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreement<\/a>, which has enabled a significant increase of bilateral trade during the last decade since its entry into force in February 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the North American Head of State underlined the Inca country&#8217;s leadership in the Lima Group, as well as the efforts it has undertaken concerning Venezuelan migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru has\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/ingles\/noticia-unhcr-underlines-peru-efforts-on-venezuelan-migration-743045.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">welcomed close to 850,000 Venezuelans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the ambassador mentioned Peru receives the cooperation of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Organization for Migration (IOM)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)\u00a0<\/a>for Venezuela&#8217;s case.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are still at the beginning of talks to see if there can be a direct support from the United States, as our country is one of the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/ingles\/noticia-over-6000-venezuelans-have-entered-peru-in-last-48-hours-755432.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0most affected by the migrations affair<\/a>,&#8221; he told RPP radio and TV station.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is known,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/ingles\/noticia-peru-ambassador-presents-credentials-to-us-president-758072.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Peruvian Ambassador De Zela presented his credential letters to U.S. President Trump at the White House earlier this week<\/a>. &#8212; NNN-ANDINA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 11 (NNN-ANDINA) &#8212; U.S. President Donald Trump\u00a0highlighted the solid friendship ties between Peru and his country, which are based on the\u00a0common defense of democracy,\u00a0free trade, and\u00a0rule of law, Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Hugo de Zela affirmed Wednesday. According to De Zela, Trump also underlined the signing of the\u00a0Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}