Peru and Colombia have agreed to share embassy offices in Vietnam and Ghana as a means to help each other in terms of logistics, the governments of the two countries made in a statement earlier today.
Fernando Rojas, Peru’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, said Thursday that the decision comes as a result of a bilateral agreement on political understanding and mutual cooperation, which was reached during auxiliary talks at the 7th Pacific Alliance Summit held in Cali in May 2013.
Rojas explained that although Peru and Colombia will share the same buildings, they will work independently and will manage their own affairs for the benefit of their citizens living abroad.
The Peruvian government opened an embassy in Hanoi, capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, In March of this year,.
The Pacific Alliance is a trading bloc consisting of Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. The group, formally established in 2011 in Lima, is aimed at pushing for free trade and economic integration, with “a clear orientation toward Asia.”
