Britain has closed its embassy in the Peruvian capital of Lima after citing unspecified security reasons and will keep it closed on December 30th and 31st.
A spokesman from the Foreign Office said the concerns that prompted the closure related only to the embassy and that a security review will take place on January 2nd. The embassy was scheduled to be closed on January 1st.
An embassy spokeswoman in Lima said the embassy had received a "potential end-of-year terrorism threat." She said about 50 people work in the embassy, which does not usually receive threats.
The Foreign Office website said remnants of the Shining Path guerrilla movement were active in Peru and that the group was believed to have been responsible for a car bomb close to the US Embassy in Lima in 2002 and the abduction of gas pipeline workers in 2003.