Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

Some 125 years after the end of the War of the Pacific, Bolivia and Chile signed a framework for defence cooperation which both governments hailed as “historic". The accord, signed by defence ministers Walker San Miguel (Bolivia) and José Goñi (Chile) in La Paz on 16 June, includes, inter alia, knowledge sharing, training in peacekeeping operations and cooperation between national defence industries. Chile also agreed to open the port of Iquique for the free transit of Bolivian goods.