Colombia will be part, starting next week, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the first Latin American „global partner“, announced on Friday the president of that nation, Juan Manuel Santos.

„We will formalize in Brussels next week -and this is very important- the entry of Colombia into NATO in the category of global partner, we will be the only country in Latin America with this privilege,“ the president said in a televised address from the presidential Narino Palace.