I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

[There was] no relationship between denunciations and my resignation, ... Several reasons that make circumstances that oblige me to announce resignation here. It's not easy to understand, I know.

The charges are groundless, ... To arrest Fujimori would be to set off a political earthquake.

just, legal, free and transparent.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.