defense ministers of ArgentinaJorge Taiana, and boliviaEdmundo Novillo Aguilar, signed this Monday in Buenos Aires a military technical cooperation framework agreement, official sources reported.
“I am convinced that these are times that merit strengthening bilateral ties with generosity and breadth, and that Defense is a good bridge for it,” said Taiana upon receiving her Bolivian colleague in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine minister stressed that, within the framework of the National Defense Policy Directive of his country, there is a “mandate to consolidate South America as a zone of peace and to walk the path towards the creation of a subregional defense space.”
“I want to make available to Bolivia all our production and service capabilities of the productive, scientific, technological and innovation system of the Argentine defense industrial apparatus,” he added.
Taiana thanked Bolivia for sending forestry brigade members of the Armed Forces of that country to fight the fires that affected the Argentine province of Corrientes.
For his part, Novillo Aguilar specified that the agreement signed this Monday will strengthen cooperation in security, defense and development.
“Argentina has good potential and can contribute and contribute if we create spaces for integration between sister nations,” he said.
As reported by the Argentine Ministry of Defense in a statement, the agreement sealed this Monday seeks to deepen exchanges and training instances between the two ministries, cooperation between the Armed Forces, scientific, technological and industrial development, mutual assistance in emergencies and disasters, and cultural exchange on issues related to defense.
In addition, the creation of an Argentine-Bolivian working group is established that will be made up of personnel from both ministries and that will direct and coordinate the activities foreseen in the agreement. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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