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OAS Evaluates
Ecuador Border Situation With Colombia
Quito - A mission of the Organization of
American States (OAS) began on Thursday to
evaluate with Ecuadorian authorities the
insecurity situation in the border with
Colombia, Ecuadorian presidency informed.
The commissioners met with delegates from
the Ecuadorian Ministries of Defense,
Internal and External Security, Interior,
and Foreign Affairs, as well as from the
National Council of Narcotic and
Psychotropic Substances Control.
According to a press communique from the
presidency, it is expected that on Sunday
the commission presents a preliminary report
to Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Fander
Falconi with the first conclusions of their
observances in the border area.
Since Monday, the OAS mission has toured
localities in the provinces of Carchi,
Esmeraldas and Sucumbios where it verified
"the citizen's insecurity, the people
displacement and the affectations to the way
of living in the provinces, provoked by the
violence that affects the southern border of
Colombia" as in the communique.
The OAS delegates also received information
of the displacement of Ecuadorian citizens
to be far from the growing violence in the
border area, and of the works against drug
trafficking.
Peasants and other people from the area told
OAS delegates that they need attention from
the international community.
OAS is trying to reestablish diplomatic ties
between Ecuador and Colombia, since Quito
broke diplomatic ties with Bogota on March
3, 2008, two days after Colombian army
bombed a Colombian guerilla camp in
Ecuadorian territory, violating the
sovereignty of Ecuador.
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