Ecuador Hosts Forum On
Regional Security
A forum opened Thursday
here to discuss security
strategies to boost
regional peace and the
diplomatic crisis
between Ecuador and
Colombia.
Ivonne Baki, president
of the Andean Parliament
of the Andean Community
of Nations, voiced her
confidence that the
Subregional Safety
Forum, under the slogan
"Towards an Andean
agenda of confidence,"
will incubate a concrete
proposal on dealing with
regional security
problems.
"Peace is the most
important issue and we
can never lose that
possibility," she said.
The forum is drawing
experts, representatives
of the civil societies
and political elite such
as U.S. Democratic
Senator Christopher
Dodd, ex-Bolivian
President Carlos Mesa,
Argentine Senator
Cristina Perceval and
Director of the Latin
American Studies Center
at the Paulician State
University of Brazil
Hector Saint Pierre.
The working tables will
develop three topics: a
conflict prevention
mechanism, mutual
confidence measurement
and multilateral
cooperation initiative.
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