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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:30:33 -0500
From: irlandesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada Urges Peace Talks in Chiapas
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Originally Published in Spanish by Reuters
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Translated by irlandesa
Reuters
Monday, January 11, 1999, 23:44 GMT
CANADA URGES RENEWAL OF PEACE DIALOGUE IN CHIAPAS
Mexico D.F., January 11 (Reuters) - On Monday, Canada asked the Mexican
government and the zapatista guerrillas to renew their peace dialogue in
the impoverished state of Chiapas, suspended for more than two years.
"We urge that there be negotiations. The support we are offering will be
in this sense," said Lloyd Axworthy, the Canadian Minister for External
Affairs, at a press conference after meeting privately with the President
of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo.
When a journalist asked whether Canada would be willing to mediate the
conflict in Chiapas, the chancellor avoided responding directly and said he
supports the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
"The support we could give would be that (...) Chiapas is a question which
concerns Mexico, and we can give international support so that there can be
dialogue," Axworthy indicated.
The Mexican chancellor, Rosario Green, then took the floor, noting that
neither government was contemplating Canada's intermediation in the peace
negotiations.
"Canada recognizes that Chiapas is a Mexican issue which should be resolved
by Mexicans," Green stated at the same press conference, held in the
presidential residence of Los Pinos.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rose up in arms against
the government on January 1, 1994, in order to demand improvements in the
rights of the indigenous of Chiapas.
The peace negotiations have been suspended since September 1996, after the
government retracted an accord concerning indigenous autonomy which its
negotiators had signed with the rebels.
The government argued that the accord exceeded Constitutional limits.
Axworthy travelled to Mexico in order to inaugurate on Monday, along with
the chancellor, a continental seminar to promote an international
prohibition against anti-personnel landmines, sponsored by both
governments.
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