Source: Diario Financiero

Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren pointed out that work is being done on a concrete solution to the crisis that is being experienced on the northern border regarding migrants who want to leave the country, but do not have the necessary identification

“We are facing a humanitarian crisis and as the Foreign Ministry we have held talks at the highest level with both Peru and Venezuela, it is about finding a concrete solution” ensuring that we do not have diplomatic tension with Peru or Venezuela “

The minister also maintained that, as an example of the “good disposition of our neighbors, at the request of Venezuela, consular facilities are being given to Venezuelan officials so that they can interview their nationals at the border.”

He stated that “all sectors must help take care of the diplomatic dialogue. I call for not making electoral or political use of the issue, we must address this as a vision of the State”

Possible solutions

Van Klaveren pointed out that different alternatives are being analyzed to solve the problem “whether through a humanitarian corridor, whether by air or land, but it is important to emphasize that any solution requires the agreement of all the countries involved.”

This Wednesday, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Gloria de la Fuente will participate in a virtual meeting with Vice Foreign Ministers of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

The Undersecretary of Justice, Jaime Gajardo, traveled to Arica to supervise the start of the enrollment or identification of migrants. “As a government, it is extremely important to be able to enroll people who are undocumented, to find out who are the people who are in our country. The Civil Registry together with the regional ministerial secretariat for Social Development will carry out this process, in order to deliver a individualization number to these people who are in an irregular migration, and with this, to be able to provide security to the country and subsequently to be able to enable possible humanitarian corridors, with the exit documents “