SINGAPORE: Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Saturday he was cancelling planned talks with his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet and leaving a regional summit a day early over an espionage row.

"I am returning 24 hours earlier than scheduled so I can obtain complete and sufficient information (on the issue) and to be able to speak from Peru," Garcia said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

Reports that a Peruvian Air Force officer had been spying for Chile have sparked a major uproar in Peru in recent days.

"We have to cancel (the meeting with Bachelet) because we are going back to Peru over this issue," Garcia told reporters.

He said he would wait until his return to Peru "before giving a statement including all the elements that they should have there".

The row deepened on Friday when a Peruvian judge issued an extradition order against two members of the Chilean military allegedly involved in the affair. Peru has already recalled its envoy from Chile.

Relations between the two countries had already been strained over a Peruvian case against Chile at the International Court of Justice over their disputed maritime border in the Pacific Ocean.