Colombia will restore relations with Ecuador on two conditions: It demands Ecuador to maintain prudent in public statements about its northern neighbor and wants agreements on how to fight the FARC in the border area, Colombia's Foreign Minister Jaime Bermúdez said Thursday.
The Foreign Minister demands Ecuador to show "caution and discretion" in public statements and wants Colombia's southern neighbor "to seek mechanisms of cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, terrorism and particularly the control of the border," Bermúdez told Caracol Radio.
Bermúdez said that for the moment it would be better to seek other than diplomatic rapprochement.
"Let there be more commercial interaction, exchanges between universities and between civil society," he said.
Ecuador broke off relations with Colombia days after a Colombian cross-border attack on a FARC camp that killed guerrilla commander Raúl Reyes and 25 others.
NotAlvaroUribe
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... lol, what mechanisms of fight on the border? Ecuador has been making public statements since the beginning that Colombia needs to do something about the problems near their border. Ecuador has been pushing back while Colombia's current government sits and does little near the border, oh except for sending a bomb across the border illegally which is an act of war against a sovereign country. |
NotAlvaroUribe
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... As much as Colombia is harboring multiple terrorist organizations or the US for that matter. Which means Colombia can't control their own, can't solve their own, and Colombia's ugly problem is seeping into other nations. So now Ecuador has to step up to the plate and put more military presence. Ecuador has already significantly increased their efforts on the border. |
