MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Unasur defence council working on methodology to compare military expenditure
Peruvian president Alan Garcia is the main sponsor of a strong reduction in defence outlays The Union of South American Nations, Unasur, defence ministers sponsored in Peru a declaration confirming the region as a “peace zone” and agreed to continue advancing in developing a “common methodology” to compare defence expenditure among member countries.
The “Declaration of Lima” sealed the two-day deliberations of the Unasur Defence Council, CDS, third meeting and agreed to continue with an ad hoc work shop in Santiago de Chile next June2.
Reduction of military expenditure in the region has been a long standing proposal from outgoing Peruvian president Alan Garcia which had a positive echo when first announced but has yet to formalize specific commitments given the different defence and strategic interests of Unasur members.
The declaration also reaffirms support for territorial sovereignty, abstention from intervention in internal affairs and promotes self determination of the region’s peoples to advance towards regional integration.
The CDS supported a Colombian proposal to request Unasur Foreign Affairs ministers to convene a special meeting with Interior, Justice and Defence ministers to address the growing issue of trans-national organized crime.
It was also agreed that a commission working on the drafting of the “Peace, Security and Cooperation Protocol” to promote defence issues consensus and cooperation will hold a meeting in Ecuador next July 14/15.
The Defence Council includes Defence ministers from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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Read all comments“peace zone
May 19th, 2011 - 10:34 pm 0Does this mean Argentina will now presume peace in the region.
Peace what a nice word, if only she would promote peace in the Falkland’s instead of harassing them all the time,
“Reduction of military expenditure...”
May 20th, 2011 - 01:19 am 0What a joke, (IF he really said that) easy for him to suggest, he doesn't have a COLONIAL THIEF claiming 5 MILLION km² of national sovereign territory.
This whole article was distorted by Mercopress
“and promotes self determination of the region’s peoples to advance towards regional integration”
haha... I bet you're hoping to get 100+ comments after that garbage...
“Alan Garcia which had a positive echo when first announced...”
A what?? What's that Mercopress? An echo??
Elaborate on this “echo” will ya? Post some more bullshit articles like this.
you forgot to name the thief
May 20th, 2011 - 01:27 pm 0allow a gentleman to print it for you.
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