ARGENTINA is seeking to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a global partner– and has submitted a formal request to the U.S.-led military bloc as announced by Defense Ministry Luis Petri.
Petri made the announcement in a post on X, and shared pictures from his meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana, in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine Defense Minister said he presented the letter of intent and vowed to continue working to recover links that allow Argentina to modernize and train its forces to NATO standards.
“I presented the letter of intent that expresses Argentina’s request to become a global partner of this organization. We will continue working to recover links that allow us to modernize and train our forces to NATO standards,” according to Luis Petri, Defense Minister, Argentina.
Washington has already designated Buenos Aires as a major non-NATO ally–a term used to classify non-NATO countries that hold strategic relationships with the U.S. military.
And the global partner or ‘partners across the globe’ is a status that would pave way for more political, security, military, and intelligence cooperation with NATO—this comes as Argentine President Havier Milei is aligning the country more with the U.S. and its Western allies.
This status is currently being held by countries like Japan, Australia, South Korea, Iraq, Mongolia, Pakistan, New Zeland, and Fellow Latin American Country, Columbia.
However, gaining this status does not mean that the allies of the U.S.-led military bloc would come to the country’s defense in the event of an attack, as it is only exclusive for NATO members.
It has been four months since Milei was elected president— but he had already reshaped the foreign policy of Argentina to having nearly unconditional support for U.S.
Milei, who calls himself an anarcho-capitalist, formally rejected its planned entry to become a member of the BRICS—it was supposed to join the economic bloc on January 1st this year.
The Argentine President has also started the so-called ‘economic shock therapy’ by devaluing its own currency by over fifty percent against the U.S. dollar.
