SANTIAGO, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said on Wednesday that Japan should have warned Chile about the unexpected visit of Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori, but added that there had been no diplomatic conflict.

    "Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact," said Lagos, when asked if he considered the Japanese government had committed an error bynot warning Chile.

    Lagos said the situation should not generate diplomatic conflicts between Chile and Japan as it was being handled by Chile's courts.

    "There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers," said Lagos.

    The Chilean president said that if Japan wanted to intervene in the case, they must explain why they continued to consider Fujimori a Japanese citizen.

    "What we have here is Senor Fujimori, who entered Chile with a Peruvian passport and declared himself to be Peruvian on his immigration form," he said.

    Fujimori was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, when he fled the country as his rule collapsed amid corruption allegations. He was arrested on Monday after arriving in Santiago on a private flight from Japan.

    The former leader said he was on the way to launch a campaign for the Peruvian elections next April. Peruvian prosecutors want to try Fujimori on more than 20 charges, including kidnapping, torture and murder of political opponents.

    When Fujimori lived in Japan, the government refused to extradite him despite repeated Peruvian requests, saying he was a Japanese citizen. Fujimori was born in Peru to Japanese immigrants.

    Chile's foreign ministry has said it was annoyed with Japan for not issuing a warning about Fujimori's planned trip to Chile. Had Chile been told, the government would have expelled him or prevented his plane from landing, and would not now be dealing with his extradition, the ministry said. Enditem