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"Ladies and gentlemen, it is my very great pleasure today to welcome Mr Andrés Pastrana, President of the Republic of Colombia here today.
Mr President, your visit to the European Parliament comes at a time when the whole population of Columbia has demonstrated loud and clear its desire for an end to civil unrest, and for democracy and respect for human rights.
We were very touched by this appeal by eleven million Colombians, including your own wife, who last Sunday marched through the streets of many towns in your country. Please be aware that the desire for peace expressed by your fellow countrymen addresses us and it is our duty to encourage any initiative which may contribute to peace.
This massive demonstration coincided with the opening of peace negotiations between your government and the guerrilla movement in Uribe. I would like, especially, to pay tribute to your perseverance and to your courage which made it possible to initiate this peace process which, I sincerely hope, will progress and be successful. Yes, the European Parliament can stand alongside the Colombians who last Sunday chanted
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Mr President, your continent and your country in particular have paid a high toll to violence and political instability. This is why I would like to pay tribute, in your presence, to all those who were the victims of their own commitment to democracy. There were too many of these female and male politicians, journalists, defenders of human rights and citizens who paid with their lives for their fight for a more just and more humane society.
Please be aware, Mr President, that we shall support every effort intended to suppressing terrorist campaigns, to controlling paramilitary forces, and to affirming the supremacy of civil authority over military might.
The European Union will assist you in your peacemaking enterprise, and shall promote the strengthening of relations between the European Union and Colombia. The cooperation agreement, of the third generation type, has already made it possible to establish solid links between us. I am convinced that these links would be stronger yet if they were to come within the framework of intensified regional cooperation between the Andean Pact countries, a reinforcement which we devoutly wish for because regional stability is achieved primarily, of course, by being on good neighbourly terms.
Mr President, the European Parliament today hopes to encourage you to continue in your move to establish once and for all the rule of law. We thank you for your attendance here, for your visit, and it is now my very great pleasure to give you the floor."@en1
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