Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski holds a news conference at the conclusion of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit in Lima, Peru November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Paco Chuquiure
LIMA (Reuters) - A government commission in Peru travelled to a remote Andean region this week to reassure locals that sorely-needed public works were on the way, part of a renewed bid to keep conflicts in the mineral-rich country from turning deadly, the government said on Thursday.
Three ministers in President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's cabinet met with local leaders in the southern highland province of Espinar to nail down deadlines for paving a highway and building a hospital - helping avert a scheduled protest, said Rolando Luque, who was part of the talks as head of the cabinet's Office of Dialogue.
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