OAS: Ecuador & Colombia
Reach Agreement on Resolution

by Frances Robles

Colombian Ambassador Camilo Ospina Wednesday said Colombia and Ecuador reached an agreement on the text of the resolution the Organization of American States (OAS) is to issue later today about their diplomatic crisis, with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Marķa Isabel Salvador claiming the document would be "a success for Ecuador."

"We consider this is a resolution adequate to the Colombian circumstances," Ospina told reporters before resuming a special session of ambassadors to OAS. The meeting was convened to hear the claims of two countries in connection with the incursion of Colombian troops in Ecuadorian territory to attack a camp of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).

The first session was suspended early on Wednesday without agreement, some 10 hours after the meeting began.

According to Ospina, the resolution states that Colombian troops entered Ecuadorian territory, "just like the Colombian government acknowledged initially, but it also suggests the possibility of violation by Colombia insofar as other rebel groups may be located in the Ecuadorian side."

"There is no condemnation whatsoever," he stressed. "A committee was created with the major goal to seek a rapprochement between the parties. It is not an investigation committee, but a committee that may visit the places the two governments may indicate," Ospina said, as quoted by AP.

"Ecuador has made the principle of inviolability of state's sovereignty to be explicitly expressed in the document," said Salvador.

Source: El Universal

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