Colombia, Ecuador restore ties under deal with Carter (Jimmy Carter)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Saturday June 7, 04:51 AM
Colombia, Ecuador restore ties under deal with Carter


ATLANTA (Reuters) - Colombia and Ecuador have agreed to renew low-level diplomatic relations under a deal brokered by former President Jimmy Carter, the Atlanta-based Carter Center said on Friday.

The relations will be restored at the level of charges d'affaires after Ecuador severed ties with Colombia following a cross-border raid by Colombia's army against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas in March.



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Colombia, Ecuador to restore diplomatic relations
By FRANK BAJAK – 4 hours ago

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia and Ecuador are restoring diplomatic ties at the charge d'affaires level following mediation by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Colombia's presidential spokesman said Friday.

Government officials in the Ecuadorean capital of Quito did not immediately confirm the announcement but promised an official statement shortly.

Ecuador pulled its ambassador in anger after a cross-border Colombian military raid March 1 on a leftist rebel camp in which a senior Colombian guerrilla and 24 other people were killed.

President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia "ratifies the verbal promise" he gave Carter and re-affirmed his readiness to restore full ties, spokesman Cesar Mauricio Velasquez said in a statement he read to the news media.

The curt announcement followed a statement issued by the Carter Center in Atlanta that said Uribe and President Rafael Correa of Ecuador had "confirmed their willingness" to restore ties "immediately and without preconditions."

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[Hulk]

1. How many times have we heard about bush I doing such negotiations??? Nunca!!

Carter has been president since he was elected back in 1976. He has continued to work both nationally and internationally in the search for peace and the assistance of the poor and needy.

Wanna bet we NEVER hear from this horse's ass living in the White House once he leaves his safe haven? That pig doesn't have a dime's worth of decency in him.

Jimmy Carter will be right up there with MLK, JFK, Ghandi, Sister Teresa, and the other brave souls who devoted their lives for the good of humanity.

Damn this preznit to hell!!

[Tempest]

2. Bush and Rice must get awfully tired

Of hearing about how Carter has done their diplomacy for them.

[Grey]

3. Yuh gotta' love Jimmy carter.... n/t

[jasmine621]

9. I do. I really do. nt

[rateyes]

4. He'd make one helluva Secretary of State. nt

[rusty quoin]

5. Yes. He sure would, and he has the energy for it, even at his age.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Beautiful image! It looks exactly like the Bush Steve Bell draws for the Guardian!

Like this:

[Peace Patriot]

6. The Bushites were salivating for war --to destabilize Ecuador and Venezuela,

and regain corporate control of all that oil. I'm very happy to see one of their plans foiled, or given a setback, by restoration of peaceful ties.

Hugo Chavez also had a role in cooling things down. Brazil's president called him "the great peacemaker," because of it.

Uribe has been calling Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, and Chavez, "terrorist-lovers." Ecuador recently took it to the OAS and requested an investigation--because the charges are in the same category as Bushite pre-war charges about WMDs and connections to 9/11, against Iraq. Cooked up--to the purpose of war. Uribe is a sort of mini-Bush. A treacherous criminal and liar. I'm glad to see Jimmy Carter working on it, because that is a very dangerous situation.

I hope Carter can do something about Bolivia, where the Bushites are stirring up white racists to secede from Evo Morales' government, and take the gas and oil reserves with them. That situation is a tinderbox as well--all funded and organized by our U.S. warmongers. Great diplomacy is needed to prevent the split-up of Bolivia. And the Morales government itself, the surrounding leftist governments (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay), the OAS, and the Catholic bishops--nobody seems able to talk sense into them. Bushites bring out the worst in the people they use--their greed, their bigotry, their arrogance.

[JohnnyCougar]

8. This is good for both nations.

Colombia should have no interest in being turned into the Israel of South America by the neocons here.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. That old guy just keeps meddling! Doesn't he know how ex-presidents are supposed to behave?

They play golf and make speeches for absurd fees. Jeez.

(I almost added something about pushing their wives' political careers, but I restrained myself.)

[LeftishBrit]

11. Good news!

Good for Carter and good for Correa and - well, it will be a cold day in hell before I actually say good for Uribe.

But let's hope for peace and good relations in the future.

[Judi Lynn]

12. AFP: Carter helps Ecuador, Colombia resume diplomatic ties

Carter helps Ecuador, Colombia resume diplomatic ties
AFP
Published: Friday, June 06, 2008

QUITO - Ecuador and Colombia agreed Friday to re-establish low-level diplomatic ties under an agreement sponsored by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, three months after tensions between the South American neighbors flared.

On March 1 the Colombian military attacked a jungle camp belonging to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas inside Ecuadoran territory. About 20 people were killed including rebel chief Raul Reyes, four Mexicans and an Ecuadoran.

Both Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa and Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broke diplomatic ties with Colombia and rushed soldiers to their borders.

Carter has been in telephone conversations with Correa and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, the Atlanta-based Carter Center said in a statement.

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