Publicado: 02 Sep 2007 06:39
Tras un buen tiempo sin actualizar aquí, una noticia interesante. Nigeria colaborará con Guinea Ecuatorial para patrullar el Golfo de Guinea:
This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
16 August 2007
Posted to the web 16 August 2007
Lagos
The Nigerian Navy is to cooperate with its Equatorial Guinea counterpart to jointly patrol the Gulf of Guinea.
Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, announced this yesterday in Abuja, while receiving Equatorial Guinea's military delegation led by Minister for Defence, Lt.-GeneralAnthonio Ndong.
Other areas of possible cooperation, according to Adekeye, are sharing of maritime information, training assistance and ship repair and upgrade.
"We will be able to exchange vital information and I will be very happy if you will send two ships for us to form a joint patrol in the Gulf", Adekeye said.
"As neighbours, we will benefit more, considering the presence of crude oil in the area. "I believe our bilateral relations and security of the Gulf of Guinea will be enhanced," the CNS said.
Deputy Director of Policy and Plans, Naval Headquarters, Navy Captain Abiodun Onireti, had earlier briefed the delegation on three major areas of consideration between the two countries.
They are the role and organisation of the naval headquarters, maintenance strategy of Gulf of Guinea and enhancement of existing bilateral relations .
Earlier, Ndong said exchange of information between the two navy would enhance security of the Gulf, adding that his country was committed to having marine cooperation with Nigeria and bilateral cooperation between defence advisers of the two countries.
"We are in Nigeria to discuss in detail, areas of possible cooperation between our two countries," he said.
The team is expected to visit naval establishments in Delta, Port Harcourt and Lagos.
NAN recalls that the two countriessigned bilateral agreement on jointoil exploration on April 3, 2002.
Con solo un día de diferencia se accede a las dos peticiones más importantes de la delegación ecuatoguieana, información y dos buques nigerianos. Es curioso que estando las FAS ecuatoguineanas bajo reestructuración de MPRI los nigerianos accedan a compartir información, ya que rechazaron a MPRI para modernizar sus FAS bajo el pretexto de no querer que una empresa americana tuviera acceso a su información.This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
17 August 2007
Posted to the web 17 August 2007
Lagos
Equatorial Guinea Military has said during a meeting with senior officials of the Nigerian Navy, Army and Air Force, that it seeks to strength en areas of cooperation with Nigeria in maritime security.
The country's military delegation, led by Vice Minister for Defence, Lt. Geeral. Anthonio Ndong, are visiting naval installations in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri.
Ndong said "the objective is for us to go round and see things that you have and what you would offer to us. We would then agree on the final things that would be beneficial to us."
Meanwhile, Nigeria has listed joint naval patrols along common maritime boundary, maritime information sharing, training assistance and ship repairs and upgrade as major areas it could strengthen existing cooperation.
Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, told the delegation that through the areas listed, "our bilateral cooperation and security in the Gulf of Guinea "will be enhanced."
He reminded the delegation that the Nigerian Navy played a major role in the establishment of the Equatorial Guinea Navy in 1986, as it sent officers and rating to train the first set of personnel.
Adekeye also said as part of measures to build more confidence in the cooperation, two ships of the Navy would sail to Equatorial Guinea for training and flag visits.
He also announced Nigeria's offer of training slots for Equatorial Guinean naval personnel in Nigerian naval institutions.
Other members of the delegation include Rear Admiral Roberto Mba Ndong, Secretary of Defence, Colonel Pedro Nguema, Airforce Col. Francisco Obama, DG of Military Cooperation and Capt. Agapito Obiang, Director of Logistics/Planning, all of the Equatorial Guinea ministry of Defence.