Overview
- Presidents José Jerí and Daniel Noboa signed the Quito Presidential Declaration and adopted the 2025 Action Plan to guide cooperation through 2026.
- Both leaders agreed to urgent, coordinated measures against transnational criminal networks, with Jerí citing expanded use of technology to reinforce border controls.
- Noboa called for combined operations between the countries’ armed forces and for international support to confront organized crime, narcotrafficking, arms trafficking and illegal mining.
- Defense ministers César Díaz and Gian Carlo Loffredo held bilateral talks in Quito to align operational security steps as part of the binational cabinet meetings.
- Delegations elevated the cleanup of the Puyango–Tumbes basin and requested progress reports from environment ministers while reviewing unfinished 2024 commitments.