The agreement is specifically aimed at drug trafficking flights
MADRID, 12 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, announced this Saturday the resumption of the air security pact with the United States after a two-decade suspension in a renewed agreement aimed at fighting the flights of drug trafficking gangs that cross the country’s airspace. Andean.
“Yesterday the Minister of Defense, Jorge Chávez, confirmed that a good agreement was reached with the United States regarding aerial interdiction; support that is going to be resumed,” Otárola explained after the United States suspended the agreement in 2001 after the Death of an American woman and her seven-month-old daughter when the Peruvian Air Force shot down a missionary plane mistaking it for a drug-trafficking flight.
“The cartels of the country are notified of the beginning of an immense fight against the entry of illegal planes that daily violate our sky,” Otárola has made known in statements collected by the official Peruvian news agency Andina.
The prime minister has indicated that he will allocate 24 helicopters, new radars and “the intense collaboration of a brother country with which we work in this fight against drug trafficking”, in reference to the United States.
Otárola added that the security forces will have special consideration for the Putumayo area, in the north of the country, where various organized gangs have been acting with impunity.
“We are going to redouble our efforts with Ecuador and neighboring countries to cut, once and for all, drug trafficking that affects nations and creates an illegal economy among the population,” he said.
