Argentina, Chile to create joint peace corps

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday, 05 December

Argentina, Chile to create joint peace corps

Argentina and Chile signed an agreement yesterday to create a joint peace corps that will be made available to the UN by 2008.

Defence Minister Nilda Garré, her Chilean counterpart Vivianne Blanlot, Foreign Ministers Jorge Taiana of Argentina and Alejandro Foxley of Chile met in Buenos Aires to sign several agreements to “enhance bilateral relations,” the most outstanding of which was the creation of the peace corps.

Blanlot and Foxley’s visit was part of a programme of ministerial visits organized by Buenos Aires and Santiago called “2+2.” Foxley told reporters that during the ministers’ meeting there was no talk about the health of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who has been under intensive medical care since the weekend.

Garré and Blanlot said that the creation of the 300-member unit “has no precedents” in the region.

“It is an event that is followed with great interest by other countries in the region,” said Garré, who a year ago became the first woman to head the Defence ministry in Argentina. Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean president, was the first woman to hold the position in the neighbouring Andean country.
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http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=9374

[gorbal]

1. Thanks, I like to here more about the rest of South America

There is to much focus on Chavez and not enough on the quieter, more subversive changes taking place. I would almost think Chavez was creating a distraction so that when socialist governments that don't call our president names pop up, Bush calls and congratulates them:)

[Nimrod2005]

2. Wow, cool as hell...IMHO.