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by 73 Colombian Non-Governmental Organizations, June 2000 COLOMBIA ANSWERS PLAN COLOMBIA: A PLAN FOR PEACE, OR A PLAN FOR WAR? STATEMENT MADE BY THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, NON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE FOR COLOMBIA MOVEMENTS. We state our decision of supporting the international help attempts to contribute to solve the armed conflict by a political negotiation, by making the society and the Colombian economy more democratic, building up integral solutions to drug-traffic, designing a new and agreed development model and strengthening the new institutions and the rebuilding of the nation. We reject the Plan Colombia because it is part of an authoritarian concept of the national security exclusively based on a strategy against narcotics, it leads to the escalation of the social and armed conflict, it really fails to solve the drug-traffic problem, endangers the peace process, attacks the indigenous populations destroying their culture and their life styles, it hampers seriously the Amazon eco-system, worsens the humanitarian and human rights crisis, promotes the forced displacement issue and makes even worse the social and political crisis. We demand the Colombian government and request the international community to re-state the concept of national security developed in the Plan Colombia, by considering the national security which enhances human, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and gives the citizens a sense of belonging, which are the basis of the national sovereignty. We request the international community to value its support to Colombia considering the humanitarian principles in force, such as the defense of life, the human rights, social development and the protection of the environment, all they have been eroded by the Colombian conflict. We propose an agreement among the various actors of the Colombian society and the international community, where the civil society be a definite party of the dialogue so as to find solutions to the conflict and to build a stable and sustainable peace. As social organizations and as members of the Colombian society we are willing to start the dialogue so as to discuss the diagnose, design the strategies, define implementation manners and to monitor a plan intended to these purposes. Sincerely,
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