Iván Duque, president of Colombia, will be in Quito for approximately eight hours. He will meet Guillermo Lasso in Carondelet.
The Government confirmed that tomorrow, Sunday, November 21, 2021, Iván Duque, President of Colombia, will make an official visit to outline security strategies -among other issues- with Guillermo Lasso.
The General Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency indicated that Lasso will receive Duque at the Carondelet Palace, where they will lead a “high-level meeting.”
The meeting will allow both leaders and their ministerial teams to discuss “different aspects of the bilateral relationship, the exchange of experiences” and outline “security strategies«, Specified the Secretariat.
Iván Duque’s activities in Quito
The Communication Secretariat indicated that “after the meeting, in the afternoon, the authorities are expected to give statements to the press.”
Duque’s official visit to Quito was announced on Friday in Bogota, where it was specified that the Colombian president will remain in the capital for about eight hours.
The two leaders are expected to hold a private meeting to which other members of both governments will later join, according to official Colombian sources.
Subsequently, Lasso will offer a lunch to President Duque and his entourage, they will exchange decorations and close the day with a joint statement to the press.
Encounters between Lasso and Duque
Lasso took possession of command in his country on May 24 and after nine days he made his first official trip to Colombia, where He was received by Duque at the Casa de Nariño.
The two presidents met again on August 14 at the common border, where they inaugurated a road corridor over the Mataje river.
For some years now, the two governments have also held regular meetings with the cabinet ministers, in which they discuss matters of bilateral interest in different fields.
Support against insecurity
The visit of Duke to Quito occurs at a time when the president Lasso It faces several difficulties such as an acute prison crisis, due to the killings between gangs of inmates who dispute control of the prisons and who, according to the authorities, maintain links with drug trafficking cartels. Colombia and Mexico.
The Ecuadorian president has said that in his eagerness to solve the prison crisis, he has the support of governments of friendly countries such as United States, Israel and Colombia, among others. EFE
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