Unasur members will share and disclose data on military expenditure

Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 20:51 UTC

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For the first time ever South American countries will jointly share and disclose data on their military expenditures, according to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Defence. It is anticipated that next March all member countries from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) will make public the information following on this year’s approval of a common methodology to measure Defence expenditure. Read full article

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JB
most of argentinian defence expenditures are not made through the MoD, but through different minister, specially the Miniterio of Planificacion and other “civilian” organisms such as CITEDEF, CONAE. We should check other countries do not do the same to hide their expenditures
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