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Peru Govt Insists Jailed Peruvian Spy Worked For Chile84 days ago
LIMA (Dow Jones)--Members of President Alan Garcia's cabinet on Tuesday continued to insist that a detained Peruvian military official spied for neighboring Chile.
News that the Air Force official passed intelligence to foreign agents has caused a diplomatic row between the two nations.
Peru's Defense Minister Rafael Rey rejected statements from the Chilean government that Chile had nothing to do with any spying in Peru.
"It is logical that they won't recognize this (spying)," Rey said on RPP radio.
He said the espionage was orchestrated through Chilean agents, adding that, "Of this there is no doubt."
Chile's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariano Fernandez said late Monday the government of Chile doesn't practice spying and rejected any links to the Peruvian official.
"I can say seriously and with responsibility that no Chilean state institutions nor officials had anything to do with these kinds of practices," Fernandez said in a statement.
Fernandez said Chile's ambassador in Peru has been in Chile for personal reasons and will remain in Santiago for consultations, until the date of his return to Lima is decided upon.
Relations between Chile and Peru had already been cool due to increased Chilean arms purchases, and as Peru pursues arbitration to back its claim for jurisdiction over a large patch of the Pacific Ocean that Chile considers its own.
On Tuesday, Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde called the spying an "unfriendly act," and said relations between Chile and Peru are at a "low point."
In a report, the research and consulting firm Eurasia Group said, "The dispute is unlikely to escalate into a military dispute, or have negative effects on trade given that both countries have strong incentives to scale back the dispute."
-By Robert Kozak, Dow Jones Newswires; 51-1-99927 7269; peru@dowjones.com
(Carolina Pica in Chile contributed to this article.)
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 17, 2009 09:22 ET (14:22 GMT)
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