A-list message, [A-List] Fw: FARC-EP, Open Letter to the Ex-Presidents Dr. Alf

http://www.solidnet.org
News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers? parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors.
Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx .

FARC-EP, Open Letter to the Ex-Presidents Dr. Alfonso López Michelsen, Dr. Julio César Turbay Ayala and Dr. Ernesto Samper Pizano.

-------------------------------------------------

From: FARC-EP, Thursday, September 18, 2003

http://www.farcep.org , mailto:elbarcino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

==================================================

Mountains of Colombia, September 10, 2003

Open letter to the ex-presidents Dr. Alfonso López Michelsen, Dr. Julio César Turbay Ayala and Dr. Ernesto Samper Pizano.

Receive an attentive greeting:

We have received and carefully analyzed your letter dated August 27 past. The letter seems positive to us because it once again reaffirms your interest already expressed months ago to contribute to the realization of the accord between the government and the FARC-EP toward the signing of the accord that would allow the liberation of the prisoners of war held by the two sides.

Lamentably, Mr. President Alvaro Uribe Velez, after heatedly assailing you for having requested "greatness and will" of the two parties in order to subscribe the accord, undercut your important contribution that could well bring the sides closer.

This official negative from the government is definite proof of the obvious lack of political will to make an effort for a solution distinct from the confrontation with the FARC. That being the case, certainly "days continue to pass and the pain and suffering of the persons deprived of their liberty and their families continue to increase", in the jails of the regime and in the mountains of Colombia.

Quite some time ago we made public the communiqué in which we formulated our requirements of guarantees and the naming of three spokespersons responsible for elaborating and signing the accord, but as you know, today we are without an answer and without a state interlocutor.

Messrs. ex-presidents: If you yourselves receive public scolding from your President, how must the situation be for the vulnerable common people labeled as enemies of the institutional apparatus covered by the policy of Democratic Security, as just happened to the NGO's accused as terrorists.

In spite of these adversities, the FARC-EP continue to maintain their constant political will to pursue the signing of the prisoner exchange with a government having the same disposition.

Attentively,

For the Secretariat of the FARC-EP

Manuel Marulanda Velez

*End*

subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx,

http://www.solidnet.org

[A-List] Fw: FARC-EP, Open Letter to the Ex-Presidents Dr. Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, Dr. Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala and Dr. Ernesto Samper Pizano.