Bolivian President Evo Morales said Friday that his country will not break off ties with any nation.

The statement came after tension flared up between Bolivia and the United States earlier this week, when local government in Bolivia's central Chapare region expelled a U.S. aid agency, accusing it of supporting the opposition parties.
""Bolivia will never break off ties with any country. And if they want to leave, it is their own business,"" Morales said at a press conference in the governmental headquarters in La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia.
Morales expressed his support for the expulsion of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), saying it was a ""dignified and sovereign action.""
Morales also said Bolivia welcomes all transparent international aid with open arms, but rejects any thing which is disguised as aid but is actually aimed at exerting political influence over the Latin American country.
Morales' support for the expulsion of the U.S.AID irritated the United States, which considers Morales' declaration as ""inappropriate, unfriendly and regrettable,"" Bolivian local media reported.
Ties between the two countries had been strained even before the expulsion.
On June 10, Washington released a document, saying it had granted political asylum to former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez Berzain, who may face charges for his role in a 2003 military crackdown that led to the deaths of some 60 civilian protesters in Bolivia.
(Source: People’s Daily Online)