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Secretary General Meets with Spain’s Secretary General for Defense Policy

  May 21, 2013

Secretary General Meets with Spain’s Secretary General for Defense Policy
Photo: OAS

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with Spain’s Secretary General for Defense Policy, Alejandro Enrique Alvargonzález, with whom he discussed issues related to hemispheric security; drug policy, the Ibero-American agenda and the cooperation between the hemispheric institution and the Spanish government.

Secretary General Insulza and Spain’s Secretary General for Defense Policy analyzed scenarios of defense collaboration, especially in natural disaster cooperation and security issues.

The maximum representative of the OAS commented to the official Spanish about major aspects of the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas, which the OAS recently presented to the Heads of State and Government of the Americas.The two also discussed drug trafficking routes from South America and the Caribbean to Europe -via Africa.

The meeting, which took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, was attended by the OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security (SMS), Adam Blackwell; the OAS Secretary for External Relations, Alfonso Quiñonez; the OAS SSM adviser, Alvaro Briones; The Permanent Observer of Spain to the OAS, Jorge Hevia; the Alternate Observer of Spain to the OAS, Guillermo Marin; and the Defense Adviser of Spain to the OAS, Lieutenant General Juan Carlos Villamía.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: FNE-12161