Paz Colombia declaration, June 8, 2000

Paz Colombia declaration, June 8, 2000

All Colombians have a right to participate in the construction of a new country

Plan of all Colombians for Peace and Social Justice

The social and non-governmental organizations that have stated their rejection of Plan Colombia

PROPOSE

The realization of an International Conference on Peace, Development, and Social Justice in Colombia. The setting should be conducive to a real agreement in the form of a Plan that will support the peace process and channel economy by encouraging Colombian society to create the framework for a new development model. This will allow for the establisment of new democratic institutions and search for real and integral solutions to drug-trafficking.

A meeting of this magnitude and with these characteristics would allow the Colombian society to express itself at levels: national government, insurgent groups, political parties, academics, universities, businessmen, workers unions, social movements (national, regional and local), the indigenous population, black community, women's organizations, human rights, development and environmental non-government organizations.

This conference will permit an ample and democratic exchange between Colombians, the governments who support the Colombian peace process and the international community.

A dialogue with these characteristics will help in the construction of a new country with a strong democratic system and in peace enabaling us to surmount the traditional forms of exclusion and imposition that characterized the elaboration of the Plan Colombia currently proposed by the Colombian government.

Geneva, June 8, 2000