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Chile Offers to Host Headquarters of Center for Control of Transnational Organized Crime

  May 18, 2012

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with the Minister of the Interior and Public Security of Chile, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who arrived to Washington, DC, to sign a cooperation agreement with the OAS to promote and jointly coordinate public security initiatives.

Within the framework of the agreement, the Chilean Minister officially declared his country’s interest to the OAS General Secretariat in hosting the headquarters of the entity that will coordinate the efforts, projects and regional programs in the fight against transnational organized crime, whose creation was agreed to in the recent Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

Minister Hinzpeter also expressed the decision of his government to cooperate with the OAS in its Mission to Support the Process of Public Security Reform in Honduras. The mission will begin its work immediately and aims to support the activities of the recently-created Commission for Public Security Reform in the Central American country.

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

Reference: E-182/12