The border between Ecuador and Colombia will open on December 1, as announced after the meeting between Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and his Colombian counterpart, Iván Duque.
From December 1, 2021 the border between Ecuador and Colombia that, since March 2020 is closed due to the pandemic by Covid-19.
The ad did Ivan Duque, President of Colombia, from Carondelet (Quito), where held a meeting with the Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso. «There will be an orderly, structured reopening, well focused, to continue maintaining between the two countries the epidemiological control », Duque said.
It will also make it easier for Colombian and Ecuadorian carriers to enter. «This marks a return to what the relationships of competitiveness and trade, to give dynamism to the economic reactivation ”.
For its part, Lasso He said that it is a step that can be taken due to the control of both countries in matters of the pandemic and that this will allow close the illegal passage across borders, where there are people who charge families to make them cross.
Support against drug trafficking
Duque also detailed that the Colombian government will provide «all the support of advisory, accompaniment and integration of all our capacity to security to continue fighting the drug trafficking«.
Guillermo Lasso He thanked the “determined support” of the Colombian government at a time when Ecuador “is going through a security crisis.”
It is an honor to receive the President of Colombia at the Carondelet Palace @IvanDuque, a great friend from Ecuador. This working meeting is a new opportunity to strengthen and tighten even more the ties between neighboring and brother countries. ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/6nWHVQOxzl
– Guillermo Lasso (@LassoGuillermo) November 21, 2021
“Everything that Ecuador requires from Colombia to fight organized crime it will receive”, Iván Duque, president of Colombia.