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"As the honourable Member well knows, Colombia is a country in the middle of an exceptionally damaging civil war. I am not sure that the government has very much control over more than about half of its territory and I am not sure how much influence it has on the warring parties or on the human rights violations committed by them.
Our aid goes primarily to the people who are themselves the victims of human rights violations, or refugees who have had to flee from their homes and from their land. It is precisely these people who most need our support and precisely these people whom we are trying to support the most. President Pastrana was in Europe a few weeks ago. I think I am right in saying he gave a speech in this Parliament about Plan Colombia and I enjoyed my conversations with him during that visit. He indicated that he will be putting forward concrete proposals next February for how the European Union could support Plan Colombia. When we receive those proposals I will be happy to discuss them with Parliament and to do so in the context of Parliament's understandable concern about some of the reports of human rights violations which alas continue and continue to be reported by reputable organisations such as the one the honourable Member referred to.
We will continue to take the most serious account of human rights violations. We will do what we can to help those who have had their human rights abused. I want to refer once again to those who have suffered or even been killed in trying to implement our own European programmes in Colombia."@en1
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