Ecuador Analyzes
Colombia-Ecuador
Diplomatic Crisis
Ecuadorian President
Rafael Correa, together
with members of the
country's Security
Council, on Friday
analyzed the recent
Colombia-Ecuador
diplomatic crisis, which
was triggered by a
unilateral cross-border
attack by Colombian
troops.
A meeting, which was
attended by Correa and
ministers of defense
Javier Ponce, of foreign
relations Maria Isabel
Salvador, of internal
and external security
Gustavo Larrea and of
interior Fernando
Bustamante, began at
around 08:30 local time
(1330 GMT).
The participants
discussed the
Colombia-Ecuador crisis,
which occurred after the
Colombian military
attacked a camp of
Colombia's Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FARC) in
Ecuador on March 1and
killed 26 rebels
including a senior FARC
leader.
Two days after the
attack, Ecuador severed
diplomatic ties with
Colombia. The ties have
yet to be restored.
Correa once again
denounced that Ecuador's
military intelligence
system was totally
infiltrated by foreign
agencies during and
after Colombia's
cross-border attack.
That's why much of
Ecuador's information
about Colombia's
military incursion did
not help defend
Ecuador's national
interests, he added.
Ecuador's defense
minister Wellington
Sandoval resigned over
the infiltration scandal
in early April.
The president and the
ministers also discussed
the issue of a lawmaker
Maria Augusta Calle, who
was accused of keeping
in touch with FARC.
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