Argentina will ratify the request submitted last April if it is ‘global partner’ of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)as reported this Wednesday by official sources.
“Argentina presented a letter of intent to join the organization as a global partner in April of this year. “The next step will be to hold a meeting of the committee of alternate NATO ambassadors in which Argentina will present its interest in being a global partner,” said the Argentine Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, when providing a management report in the Senate.
On April 18, in the framework of a meeting in Brussels with the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Mircea Geoana, the Minister of Defense of Argentina, Luis Petri, presented a letter of intent that expresses Argentina’s request to become a ‘global partner’ of that organization.
“The global partners program or category is for allied countries that are outside what is considered the North Atlantic region, but that share common interests,” Posse pointed out.
Argentina’s approach to NATO is linked to the new foreign policy developed by the government of the ultra-liberal Javier Milei, which has the United States and Israel as references.
NATO has 32 full members. Born after the Second World War (1939-1945), twelve countries signed their membership in 1949: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the United States, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
They were joined, in various expansions, by Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland and Sweden – the last two additions, in 2023 and 2024, respectively, against the background of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
In addition, it has several allies qualified as global partners: Australia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Colombia, the only country in Latin America, admitted in 2017.
During his appearance before the Senate, Posse assured that “at no time was the inclusion” of the United States considered in the integrated naval base that Argentina plans to build in the extreme south of the country “nor was any agreement signed” in this regard with the commander of the United States Southern Command, Army General Laura Richardson, during her recent visit to Argentina.
“I was present at all the general meetings in Argentina. This topic was never discussed. No agreement was ever signed. “The base commanders simply showed him the project and they found it interesting,” Posse asserted.
Regarding the relationship with the United Kingdom, a country with which Argentina maintains a historical controversy over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, Posse said that “both countries are seeking to agree on agreements and share objectives in multilateral forums on various topics“, but clarified that “at the moment no bilateral meeting is scheduled.”
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Source: Gestion
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