WE EXPAND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING WITH PARAGUAY

On Tuesday 7 May, the Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, received the
head of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad), Arnaldo E. Giuzzio
Benitez, who was accompanied by the Paraguayan ambassador to Argentina,
Julio Cesar Vera Caceres. Wednesday 08 May 2019. In this context, a process
that culminated documents amendment to an existing agreement between the
Ministry of Security with SENAD and the Ministry of Interior of Paraguay,
run by the National Directorate of International Cooperation were signed
security of our ministry. Amendment sealed on the day of date aims include
the Ministry of Defense of Paraguay as a party to the Memorandum of
Understanding subscribed timely in the city of Buenos Aires on 11 April
2017. Thus, it will equip the instrument operating more efficiently, as the
General Naval Prefecture, the Ministry of Paraguayan defense, may well act
in coordination with the Naval Prefecture Argentina under this agreement.
Also during the meeting agreed to maintain a common active bilateral work
agenda, based on the exchange of information and promoting coordinated
operations, emphasizing the need to work together against drug trafficking
and transnational organized crime. Giuzzio Benitez's visit to the
headquarters of the Ministry of Security takes place after his
participation in the Specialized Meeting on Drugs (RED) of MERCOSUR, held
in facilities SEDRONAR with authorities of our Ministry. For the audience
at the headquarters of the security ministry, the minister was accompanied
by the Secretary for Security, Eugenio Burzaco; the holder of the
Coordination Unit, Gerardo Milman; and the national director of
International Security Cooperation, Gastón Schulmeister.