The topics that Santos and Trump will talk about in their meeting

2017-03-09 14:53:36

Although the presidents of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, have already spoken by phone twice and the meeting is coming in Washington, nothing is confirmed on the plan, or a date for speaking. meeting.

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However, the Colombian embassy in that country confirmed that the ambassador, Juan Carlos Pinzón, is working to make this meeting a reality.

At this point, one of the most pressing issues between the two countries is the future of Paz Colombia, a program through which the United States will provide aid to Colombia.

Although the funds for this program (450 million dollars) have already been approved by the US Congress, its payment is pending other procedures in the northern country.

Until now, the United States has been one of the most committed to peace in Colombia, to the point of appointing a special envoy, Bernie Aronson, to follow the process with the FARC.

In a recent visit to Colombia by the US Secretary of Anti-Narcotics Affairs, William Brownfield, it can be concluded that the two governments reviewed the current drug trafficking situation and that during the two days of meetings no discussion was possible of reducing US drug resources for Colombia.

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When he asked the official about the possible reduction of economic aid, as announced by the secretary, he pointed out, “because of the conversations we had for two days with Ambassador Brownfield point in the opposite, instead of bringing additional how much there is.” from the Obama administration and that in this case it will be maintained so that our plan, which allows a combination of change and destruction, has all the success needed for our security and the security of the region,” said Villegas.

In terms of free trade, no significant changes are expected to the Free Trade Agreement that the two countries signed six years ago, given that Colombia does not affect the US trade balance, as it does with Mexico, under the NAFTA agreement of which Canada is also a party.

Likewise, there will be an interest between the two countries in strengthening security in Central America and the Caribbean in order to combat factors such as drug trafficking to the United States, and the flow of immigrants from various countries to the United States.

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