Monday, March 23, 2009

South America launches new defence council

On 10 March, the embryonic South American Defence Council (Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano: CDS) opened its first formal meeting in Santiago de Chile to define a four-year "action plan". The CDS is a new regional organisation that will serve as a "meeting platform" for the defence ministers of the member states of the Union of South American Nations (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas: UNASUR)

[first posted to http://jir.janes.com - 13 March 2009]

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