Amazon Indigenous Communities call for Peace

The Amazon indigenous communities of Ecuador and Peru were preparing yesterday in Quito a joint declaration to state the need to "avoid a conflict" between the two peoples, saud the general coordinator of the Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indigenas de la Cuenca Amazonica (COICA, Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin), Valerio Grefa. The native leaders of Bolivia, Peru, Brasil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Surinam and Guyana, were holding a meeting to analyze the activities of the Amazonic organization, as well as to design the activities and goals for the Decade for indigenous peoples of the world, that began the past December 10th. One of the points on the agenda of the meeting was to analyze the recent incidents between Ecuador and Peru.

Indigenas amazonicos piden paz

Los indigenas amazonicos de Ecuador y Peru preparaban ayer en Quito una declaratoria conjunta para resaltar la necesidad de "evitar un conflicto" entre ambos pueblos, informo el coordinador general de la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indigenas de la Cuenca Amazonica (COICA), Valerio Grefa. Los dirigentes nativos de Bolivia, Peru, Brasil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Surinam y Guyana, efectuan una reunion para analizar las actividades de la organizacion amazonica, asi como para diseniar las actividades y metas durante el Decenio de los pueblos indigenas del mundo, que se inicio el pasado 10 de diciembre. La agenda de la reunion incluye analizar los recientes incidentes entre Ecuador y Peru.


Posted to Native-l on Tue, 31 Jan 1995 by Luis Fierro (lfierro@arrow.eco.utexas.edu)