Venezuela, Colombia to jointly fight border smuggling
Venezuela, Colombia to jointly fight border smuggling
Feb 07,2014
MARACAIBO, Venezuela, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela and Colombia will implement effective security plans to control food and fuel smuggling across the border, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Thursday.
Jaua and his Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin signed on Thursday in Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela a memorandum to work together along the 2000-kilometer-long border to combat smuggling, which accounts for up to 40 percent of the food Venezuela produces or imports.
"We have signed this agreement to fight smuggling and there is no economic activity whatsoever that justifies a Venezuelan to leave our families no food, which contributes to shortages in certain products," Jaua said.
Both countries agreed to implement the mandatory marking of livestock and revise transactions related to money laundering through the effort of their central banks, said Jaua.
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