Defense Minister Jorge Taiana stressed this Friday from Brazil that “The Internal Security and Defense laws are clear about the areas of concern of each of them and about the degrees of coordination that must exist“, when asked by Télam about the participation of the armed forces in the fight against organized crime.
Taiana recalled that the rules in question “they are founding and consensus laws of our democracy” and that, “by virtue of this, each force is trained and qualified for its specific function”, as he highlighted to this agency in the framework of a tour of Brazil, where he is carrying out an agenda that includes meetings with his Defense counterpart, José Mucio Monteiro Filho, and the director of the BNDES, Nelson Barbosa, plus an exchange with President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva himself and his adviser Celso Amorim.
“The Armed Forces are not trained to combat organized crime but to protect sovereignty and repel any external state military aggression”finally pointed out the minister before meeting with his Brazilian Defense counterpart.
The head of the Defense portfolio arrived in Brazil to hold a work tour for which he will meet with Brazilian Government officials and which began with the meeting he held yesterday at the Planalto Palace (headquarters of the federal Executive) with Celso Amorim, Lula’s special advisor for foreign policy issues.
After meeting with Amorim, Taiana highlighted from her Twitter account the “very productive meeting” that he had with a “dear friend”, and assured that the conversation aimed at “deepening the bilateral relationship, regional integration and cooperation in defense production”.
