Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated Thursday that he would skip an Asia-Pacific summit within the United States in November due to a diplomatic rift with Peru.

Lopez Obrador stated that he didn’t need to take part as a result of Peru would obtain the rotating presidency of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) discussion board on the San Francisco assembly.

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“I’m not going to attend the San Francisco (summit) because we do not have relations with Peru,” the leftist President stated at his morning information convention.

Tensions between the 2 Latin American nations flared after Peru’s leftist then-president Pedro Castillo was ousted and arrested in December for trying to dissolve parliament and rule by decree.

Lopez Obrador has been one in all Castillo’s most fervent overseas supporters, and refused to acknowledge his successor Dina Boluarte, calling her an “usurper.”

In response, Peru expelled the Mexican ambassador and recalled its envoy to Mexico.

“Of course we want Pedro Castillo to be released because he has been unjustly imprisoned,” Lopez Obrador stated Thursday.