Lima, Feb. 07 (ANDINA).- Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said that Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera's new administration will bring “four years of good bilateral relationship”.

Garcia Belaunde said that the new government in Chile “opens an opportunity” to strengthen the bilateral relationship, strained by a maritime border dispute which is now being litigated at The Hague.

“The general impression is that we expect four years of good bilateral relationship”, he told Chilean newspaper La Tercera.

“The very concept of thawing the relationship -as President Piñera said- is full of sense, which sort of meets what we had been proposing previously”.

In this regard, the Peruvian minister pointed out that the most convenient thing in the bilateral agenda is to treat certain situations as completely separate issues.

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