Argentina
To Reform Military
Agreements With U.S.
Buenos Aires -
Argentina's Defense Minister Nilda Garre
said Wednesday that her country would reform
the existing military agreements with the
United States.
Previous U.S.-Argentina military agreements
were signed in 1953, 1960 and 1964.
During her visit to Washington, Garre said
she was pleased to agree with her U.S.
counterpart Robert Gates "to tackle the
reform and the main cooperation agreements
that are currently in force."
Much of the existing agreements "grow out of
concepts associated with the Cold War,"
Garre observed. The new agreements would
focus on more current concerns like
terrorism and drug trafficking, she added.
Earlier this year, Argentina formally
declared itself no longer automatically
aligned with the United States and asked it
to remove its military mission from the
Argentine Defense Ministry Building.
Garre repeated that Argentina's defense
policies would continue to adhere to its
existing guidelines, which support
democracy, human rights, self-determination
for all peoples, international law and a
multilateral system.
Argentina would continue to provide troops
to the United Nations stabilization missions
in Cyprus and Haiti. It also plans to join
the Latin American Peace Operations
Associations and create a joint peacekeeping
force with Chile, which is called the
"Southern Cross," the defense minister said.
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