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Colombia isn't joining NATO
Joanne Stocker Joanne Stocker May 27, 2018
Colombia isn’t joining NATO. Or rather Colombia is already part of NATO, and President Juan Manuel Santos’s remark this week that the two are entering a partnership isn’t really news.
On Friday, Santos said: “We will formalize in Brussels next week – and this is very important – the entry of Colombia into NATO in the category of global partner, we will be the only country in Latin America with this privilege.”
News agencies like Reuters reported that NATO would will “formally join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, making it the only Latin American nation in the alliance.” AFP said: “Colombia will next week formally become NATO’s first Latin American ‘global partner.'”
The Telegraph linked the announcement to Colombia’s presidential election whose front-runner criticized the peace process with FARC, for which Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize.
More:
https://thedefensepost.com/2018/05/27/colombia-isnt-joining-nato/