Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, met this Monday, January 9, in Santiago de Chile (Chile), with the president of that country, Gabriel Boric. during the meeting Various topics were discussed: from an aerospace exchange between the two nations to joint work on energy and migration issues.
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On aerospace Technology Transfer, Petro and Boric promised to study a way to reach an agreement in this matter. Its objective would be to use aerospace capabilities and tools in the environment, multipurpose cadastre, illicit crops and land.
“The development of aerospace institutions allows us a greater knowledge of our countryPetro said.
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Regarding the relationship of aerospace issues with the need for a agrarian reform, Petro said that it is essential, then, “In front of the land as the first point of the peace agreed between the Colombian State and the FARC, it leads us to the fact that we have to measure that land, know if it is fertile, know who owns it and what are the limits of these large extensions of land fertile that do not produce a gram of food, when the world is hungry today“.
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an aerospace agreement, According to Petro, “can clarify the panorama of the cadastre of Colombian lands, we would be about to fulfill the first point of the 2016 peace agreement“.
Regarding non-conventional renewable energies, the leaders reaffirmed their willingness to promote energy cooperation with a view to advancing in the acceleration of the Just energy transition.
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The idea, they added, is develop and incorporate renewable energies into energy matrices, particularly green hydrogen,”and share experiences and advances of both countries in the matter“.
They also agreed to hold the 11th edition of the meeting of the Mixed Technical and Scientific Commission for Chile-Colombia Cooperation to define a bilateral cooperation program for the period 2023-2025.
This program will be prepared by the Chilean Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation and the International Cooperation Directorate of the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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This meeting It would take place in the first half of 2023.
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Petro and Boric said that they believe it is very necessary to promote regional integration so that Latin America and the Caribbean face the current global economic crisis.
In that order of ideas, they believe that it is important that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) adopt a leading role and promote convergence between subregional organizations and mechanisms.
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Peace, migration and Human Rights
Chile’s role as guarantor of the dialogue table between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN).
And they reiterated the commitment of both countries to the Universal and Inter-American Systems for the protection of Human Rights.
Petro and Boric reunited in Chile.
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In addition, they pledged to work together to improve the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
How much to migration, stated that they are developing a bilateral mechanism “for the effective transfer of convicted persons to be signed during 2023 between the ministries of Justice of both countries“.
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Finally, they commented that they will strengthen “the joint work in matters of consular assistance in situations of emergencies, disasters and catastrophes that have affected nationals of Chile and Colombia, establishing cooperation measures in the area of consular assistance and protection on the occasion of said meeting“.
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