Lasso will travel to Peru with three ministers and military leadership to celebrate 25 years of peace

The president of Ecuador, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, will travel this Wednesday to Peru to commemorate the 25 years of the peace agreements with the neighboring country accompanied by a delegation including three ministers and the military leadership of the Armed Forces.

In the decree published this Tuesday that officially announces his trip for Wednesday and Thursday, Lasso detailed that he will be accompanied by his Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Gustavo Manrique; of Government, Henry Cucalón; and National Defense, Luis Lara.

Likewise, alongside the president will be the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Nelson Proaño, and the general commanders of the Army, Franklin Acosta; of the Navy, John Merlo; and from the Air Force, Gabriel García.

As is customary on his international trips, Lasso will also travel with his wife, María de Lourdes Alcívar, in her capacity as first lady of the nation.

This official visit was agreed upon last September within the framework of the United Nations general assembly, where he coincided with the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte.

This will not be the first meeting between Boluarte and Lasso, since they had previously held a meeting last June in the Peruvian border town of La Tina, in the Piura region, after the inauguration of the Binational Border Assistance Center (Cebaf) of the Ecuadorian town of Macará.

Lasso will visit Peru just a few weeks after leaving the position of head of state to hand it over to the president-elect, Daniel Noboa, winner of the second round of the extraordinary presidential elections.

This visit will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Brasilia Act, signed on October 26, 1998 by the presidents of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad; and from Peru, Alberto Fujimori.

These agreements put an end to a long border conflict to define the Amazon border between both countries that had several war episodes such as those of 1941 and 1995, the latter known as the Cenepa War.

The commemoration of this fact began last week with the inauguration in Quito of an exhibition that reviews the progress of bilateral relations in this last quarter of a century, while a similar exhibition that has the same purpose opened on Monday in Lima.