“Argentina has good potential and can contribute and contribute if we create spaces for integration between sister nations,” said Bolivian Defense Minister Novillo Aguilar.
The defense ministers of Argentina, Jorge Taiana, and from Bolivia, Edmundo Novillo Aguilar, signed this Monday in Buenos Aires a military technical cooperation framework agreement, official sources reported.
The agreement aims to strengthen relations between the Ministries of Defense and the Armed Forces of the two countries.
“I am convinced that these are times that merit strengthening bilateral ties with generosity and breadth. The Defense is a good bridge for it”, Taiana affirmed 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 walk the path towards the creation of a subregional space in terms of defence.”
“I want to make all our production capacities available to Bolivia. Our services of productive, scientific, technological and innovation system of the industrial apparatus of the Argentine defense”, he added.
Military agreement between Argentina and Bolivia
Taiana thanked Bolivia for sending forestry brigade members of the Armed Forces of that country to combat the fires that affected the Argentine province of Corrientes.
For its part, Steer Aguilar He specified that the agreement signed this Monday will strengthen cooperation in security, defense and development.
As reported by the Argentine Ministry of Defense in a statement, the agreement sealed this Monday seeks to deepen exchanges and training instances between both ministries.
Added to this is the cooperation between the Armed Forces, scientific, technological and industrial development. This, in addition to mutual assistance before emergencies and disasters, and cultural exchange on issues related to defense.
In addition, the creation of a group of Argentine-Bolivian work It will be made up of personnel from both ministries. Finally it was revealed that this will direct and coordinate the activities foreseen in the agreement.