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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Panama's government highlights a growing alliance with Mexico and Colombia

Panama's Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino, today highlighted the growing alliance with Mexico and Colombia in the international fight against crime after returning from visits to these countries paths.
Mulino, according to a press statement from his office, specifies that meetings with Mexican and Colombian peers had "intended to achieve a regional strategy to close the fence to the international criminal venture."
The owner of the Panamanian Security met earlier this week with Mexican authorities.
"The opportunity I was looking for a long time to meet with Mexico, relates to the strategic importance that this country has for security and working together we can do for exchanging information and intelligence," the minister said.
He added that "it was important to know the work will provide Panama through the information obtained from the 19 radars that are being assembled from the coming weeks.
It is extremely valuable information not only for our country, but for the region, so that Mexicans can deploy a better collaboration. "
For meetings in Mexico achieved the total communication with Mexican security sectors, the training for police members of the estates, the creation of a binational commission, similar to that found in Costa Rica and Colombia and the exchange of information on organized crime, he said.
The minister said he also asked the vice president and Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela, the opening of a public security attache in Mexico, to be a technical contact with security agencies of Panama and the Mexican Foreign Ministry.
Regarding his meeting with colleagues in Colombia, where he is accompanying the vice president midweek Varela, said the security relationship looking forward to achieve a regional impact.
The cooperation and information sharing, border security, African migration, immigration issues and the situation of detainees in Panamanian prisons Colombians were the cases that were said.
According to the head of Public Security, the security effort will be made with Mexico and Colombia also aims to get port and airport security. "We know who passes through Panama and where it goes," he said.
Mulino explained that if this effort is compounded by the initiative of the Foreign Ministry to establish a Regional Security Center and an international storage facility for natural disasters, Panama will be positioned "as a country of great vision and whose decisions on safety will regional impact. "

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