The press releases of the exercise did not mention Argentina, which had participated in the previous planning, a new paper once morest Brazil that is added to the one that occurred for the same reason; legislative apathy; once morest Peru whose navy was the host last year. The absence of the country, in addition to being embarrassing, complicates the development of the exercise because the host and organizer (Brazil) has to supply the role of the Creole ships with units from another of the participants.
Unitas is an ocean exercise that dates back to 1959, it has been updated since then with criteria of a multipolar world. Each year the navies summoned carry out naval operations in a multinational task force and test their response capacity in challenges to maritime security.
Integration
The exercise contributes to the promotion of relations, trust and interoperability between the countries participating in the exercise. One more pillar in the country’s foreign relations that are once once more overshadowed. At the end of July, Francisco Cafiero, Secretary of International Affairs for Defense, spoke at the XV Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, which took place in Brasilia.
“It is important that the position of Argentina’s defense policy be heard in the most relevant regional forum that brings together the highest authorities of that area of the continent,” he held a bilateral meeting with the Brazilian minister, General Paulo Sergio Negueira de Oliveira. He spoke of moving towards “a productive integration, the commitment to maintain the South Atlantic as a zone of peace and cooperation.” One wonders what the interlocutors perceive in the face of discrepancies between words and actions.
The departure of Sergio Massa from the presidency of the Lower House left pending that his replacement Cecilia Moreau has not resolved in a timely manner either. This framework law is voted every year, the usual thing is that in minutes it is approved on tables. It has a favorable opinion from the Defense Commission chaired by deputy Alberto Asseff (PRO).
On August 10, the Senate, unanimously (63 affirmative votes), gave half sanction to the project on authorization for the entry of foreign troops and the departure of national forces, it passed to the Deputies to receive the sanction that has not yet occurred. The president of the Defense Commission, senator Sergio Leavy (FdT), in statements to the Parliamentary portal, assured: these exercises serve “to train our people” and are “indispensable for the training of our men and women that these exercises continue” . These are 11 military exercises, of which seven correspond to the Argentine Navy, two to the Argentine Air Force, one to the Argentine Army and one to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There are five of a bilateral nature, two with Brazil and three with Chile and six multilateral. The multinational exercise Salitre, in which fighter planes from the Argentine Air Force are involved, is on the brink of collapse.
