Launch Binational Border Security Plan Colombia and Panama

In order to strengthen cooperation in security and defense issues, the Ministers of Defense of Colombia, Rodrigo Rivera, and Public Security of Panama, Jose Raul Mulino, signed an agreement to implement the Binational Border Security Plan during X the closure of the meeting of the Binational Border Commission (COMBIFRON) held in the town of Capurganá Choco, 8 km from the border, an official statement said.
"Today is a very special day," said Minister Rivera, explaining that "this plan will raise the strategic relationship between our two countries on security and will contribute to regional stability."
He added that "privileged geographical position of both countries makes it a natural destination of the licit trade routes and the progress of the world, but at the same time become a nodal point for the claims of threat of transnational organized crime."
Senior officials said that in addition to terrorism and drug trafficking FARC developed in this area, there are different manifestations of transnational crime that require further joint work between the security forces of both countries.
Murine Rivera and agreed to develop coordinated and synchronized operations on the border, which will strengthen the response capacity of both countries against the global problem of drugs, illegal migration, arms trafficking and the presence of transnational criminal groups.
Along with this, operational records and agreed to sign agreements on current operational procedures, to potentiate the activity of the security agencies of both nations in the border area.
Also, they pledged to sign a Framework Agreement for Technical Cooperation between the two ministries. Colombia and Panama will work to strengthen intelligence work, exchange information and progress in the coordination of action to protect the population in this area.
The two ministers agreed that the Binational Border Security Plan is regional in scope to the extent that the positive effects will contribute to improving security conditions in Central America and the Caribbean.
"This Combifron produce several results that will soon impact on Panama, Colombia and the region, and open doors for cooperation to any nation in the world that wants to collaborate in the fight against the whole range of evils to which we are facing in our two countries, "said the minister Mulino.
The Plan also includes measures regarding the protection of black communities and indigenous peoples who inhabit the border, technical assistance against improvised explosive devices, and for the prevention of enrolling individuals in illegal armed groups and to promote their separation, issues were not part of the traditional agenda COMBIFRON.
The COMBIFRON between the two countries was set on Tuesday by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Colombia, Rafael Guarin, and the Deputy Minister of Public Security of Panama, Alejandro Garuz.