Latin American and Caribbean Countries Agree to Work Together to Facilitate International Cooperation
At a space policy workshop in Mexico City last month, space policy-makers from six Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed to identify common elements in their space policies to facilitate international cooperation. The workshop, Space Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Looking to the Future, was sponsored by the Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRECTEALC) and the Secure World Foundation. It brought together space policy-makers from Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Mexico, The Netherlands, United States of America, and Venezuela, according to a SWF news release today.
SWF Executive Director Ray Williamson was quoted as saying that smaller Latin American countries are interested in space because of the benefits they can derive from space applications for health, resource management and education, and for the development of high tech industry. The Secretary General of CRECTEALC, Dr. Sergio Camacho, a former Director of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, reportedly said that international cooperation is a way for countries to develop space capabilities more quickly: “‘Such participation is facilitated when [a country’s] national space legislation is aligned with the international outer space treaties. Furthermore, cooperation is facilitated when countries have compatible space policies and goals,’ Camacho said.”
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