SPAIN: PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR MEETS WITH PERUVIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ALEJANDRO TOLEDO

Record ID: 190431

  • Title: SPAIN: PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR MEETS WITH PERUVIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ALEJANDRO TOLEDO
  • Date: 6th June 2000
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (JUNE 5, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF PREMIER'S RESIDENCE PALACIO DE MONCLOA 0.04 2. SLV WAITING MEDIA 0.08 3. SLV PERUVIAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ALEJANDRO TOLEDO ARRIVING; TOLEDO MEEETING SPANISH PREMIER JOSE MARIA AZNAR/SHAKING HANDS (2 SHOTS) 0.48 4. MV MEDIA PAN LEFT TO TOLEDO AND AZNAR MEETING; SCU AZNAR; SCU TOLEDO; MV AZNAR AND TOLEDO (4 SHOTS) 1.10 5. SCU TOLEDO ENTERING PRESS CONFERENCE; MV MEDIA (2 SHOTS) 1.31 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) TOLEDO: "In our fight to recover democracy in Peru, we will not put all our eggs in the basket of the Organisation of American States. "The OAS is a political institution, and sometimes a politicised one. And it needs to express its democratic vocation, and not allow history to return to the stage of the dictators." 2.24 7. MV/SLV NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (2 SHOTS) 2.12 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) TOLEDO "I love my country, so I don't want any economic sanctions to be imposed. But at the same time, we cannot allow that the current situation produces a type of government that could be contagious - a democratic face but with a dictatorial heart that has captured all the institutions of its government." 2.46 9. SCU JOURNALISTS 2.50 10. SLV NEWS CONFERENCE (2 SHOTS) 3.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVADIFD53X4EK7L0JNBQ9YU24YPP
  • Story Text: Peruvian opposition leader Alejandro Toledo has met
    Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to press his case for
    a re-run of the elections in his home country.

    Toledo on Monday (June 5) urged the Organisation of
    American States (OAS) to back his campaign for a re-run of
    last month's election, but said he was not counting on its
    support.

    Toledo told reporters at a news conference: "In our fight
    to recover democracy in Peru, we will not put all our eggs in
    the basket of the Organisation of American States."
    Foreign ministers of OAS states kicked off a three-day
    meeting in Canada on Sunday (June 4) with the controversial
    re-election of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on the
    agenda.

    Fujimori was the only candidate in the run-off in late May
    after Toledo dropped out, alleging fraud.

    The OAS pulled its monitoring team out of Peru before the
    election, and its human rights team on Sunday said the vote
    had been an irregular interruption of the democractic process.

    But after the first day of their meeting in Canada, there
    was no sign the ministers had agreed to back a Canadian
    proposal to send a new team to Peru to recommend some kind of
    solution.

    Toledo said the OAS was political institution, and
    sometimes a politicised one.He said it needed to express its
    democratic vocation and not allow history to return to the
    stage of the dictators.

    He said his demands were for a clean election defined by
    international organisations.

    Toledo said he was disppointed at Peru's neighbouring
    countries - Brazil, Chile and Argentina - for not opposing
    Fujimori's re-election.

    He warned Fujimori's autocratic style of government might
    spread in the region.He said: "The current situation produces
    a type of government that could be contagious - a democratic
    face but with a dictatorial heart that has captured all the
    institutions of his government."
    As well as Spain's historic links as the former colonial
    power in Peru and much of the rest of Latin America, it is
    also the region's leading foreign investor.


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