---------- From: "rexy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:26:30 -0500 To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@tonto.eunet.fi> Subject: COMMUNIQUE January 3, 2002 COMMUNIQUE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA - PEOPLE'S ARMY FARC-EP With respect to the meeting of the National Table of Dialogues and Negotiation being held January 3 and 4, 2002, the spokespersons of the FARC-EP publicize the following points: 1.. We come to today's meeting with a great will to find formulas to make it possible to free the process of obstacles and get discussion underway on the themes being dealt with, which are the Common Agenda, Cease-fire and Cessation of Hostilities, compensation for the unemployed, the recommendations of the notables and the San Francisco de la Sombra Accord. 2.. Concerning the meeting, the usual chorus is to be heard. The presidential candidates, Serpa, Uribe Velez, Noemi and Juan Camilo Restrepo, the presidents of the business organizations, some hierarchs of the church, and the big information media, are demanding unilateral concessions from the insurgency while guarding silence in the face of the substantial issues that concern Colombians in common: the economic system and its neo-liberal policy, reform of the political regime, compensation for unemployment, an end to U.S. intervention in our internal affairs, suspension of the extradition of citizens, punishment for corruption, a solution, by joint agreement, for illegal crops, and the dismantling of state paramilitarism. 3.. The existence of the National Table of Dialogue and Negotiation implies recognition of two sides that are jointly pursuing political accords for solution of the problems giving rise to the social and armed conflict in our country. This means that unilateral impositions have no place therein, since each side is free to advance to the point it considers convenient. Mountains of Colombia, January 3, 2002 Raul Reyes, Joaquin Gomez, Carlos Antonio Lozada, Simon Trinidad, Andres Paris _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
