Press Release Nº 106

The chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dr. Salomón Lerner Febres and the Prosecutor, Dr. Nelly Calderón, signed this afternoon an institutional cooperation agreement.
Through this agreement, the Prosecutor’s Office commits itself to channel its cooperation through the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Forced Disappearances, in order to provide information in relation to the cases being investigated by the Commission and to formalize the agreement with the Truth Commission on its intervention during the process of exhumation of clandestine graves.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Prosecutor’s Office share a mutual interest in clearing up these crimes and violations of human rights committed by terrorist organizations and State agents.
It is important to point out that the regulations establishing and governing the functions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Prosecutor’s Office are different in their motivations, and in that sense the compliance with their functions does not imply any interference in the work developed by the other institution… the Peruvian government will provide its full support to the work developed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission through its different organisms and ministries

Lima, August 15th, 2002

Office of Communications and Public Impact