The Columbian senator Piedad Córdoba, who is mediating the conflict with the local guerrilla, came today to the European Parliament to ask for support on the country’s pacification and to make clear the  situation of war lived by the Columbian people.

“If the conflict will not be recognized, international criminal law cannot be applied in the country and the humanitarian crisis that we’re living since almost 50 years ago will not finish”, explained Piedad Cordoba.

In Colombia, there is 18 million poor, eight million beggars, five million dislodged, 200 thousand missing people and 130 kidnapped, according to last UN investigation, which also proved the existence of crematories and common ditches where journalists, politicians and human rights defenders had been thrown out after being assassinated.  “' It is preoccupying that Europe does not see what is going on Colombia and insists in the idea that our President is popular”, considers the senator. 

In the press conference, the president of EL and GUE/NGL group, Lothar Bisky, recognized that Colombia does not live the same kind of development as other South-American countries and that is necessary that the EU reaches a political agreement to support the humanitarian situation.

For Cordoba, “it is unacceptable that EU signs an agreement of free trade with a country without taking into account the human rights situation”, besides other problem which is the existing “European transnational companies who are financing groups that have provoked the dislodgement of the farmers”.

The European Union has the duty to fight for a “just agreement” and to protect, “the non combatant ones”, and helping to free the hostages, added the senator.