UNASUR Ministers for Openness
Quito - The 12
foreign and defense ministers of the Union
of South American Nations (UNASUR) are faced
with the same challenge their presidents
were able to handle recently, after strong
disagreements at the Bariloche Summit,
Argentina.
Seeking the confidence lost after a
bilateral agreement between Colombia and the
US, regarded here as a threat for regional
progressive governments, keeps being the
Gordian knot for increasing UNASUR
integrationist deals.
The ministers have the difficult task of
putting on the table all the information on
bilateral agreements, military bases, arms,
and budget, and of trying to create a common
Code of Ethics based on principles.
Independence, self-determination, rejection
of attacks, and full respect
for territorial sovereignty are among the
principles they intend to reaffirm in the
Quito meeting.
The authorization for the US to use seven
military bases in Colombian territory is the
key issue in today's meeting, as one of them
would allow the Pentagon make incursions in
any regional country, and spy on it with
sophisticated means. |
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