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DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THREATENED BY FAMINE AND STARVATION. THE TWELVE APPEAL TO ALL CONCERNED TO MAKE SERIOUS EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THESE CONFLICTS.
18(BIS). THE TWELVE WISH TO EXPRESS THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMS OF THE RECENT CATASTROPHIC FLOODS IN SUDAN AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE PROVIDING THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE WHICH IS SO URGENTLY NEEDED. THE TWELVE ALSO REITERATE THEIR READINESS TO SUPPORT TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN THAT COUNTRY.
19. NEARLY FOURTEEN MONTHS AGO, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WARMLY WELCOMED THE HISTORIC DECLARATION BY THE FIVE PRESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA TO SIGN THE ESQUIPULAS II AGREEMENT IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT STABLE AND LASTING PEACE IN THEIR REGION.
THE TWELVE WERE AWARE OF THE DIFFICULTIES WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE OVERCOME IN ORDER FOR THE FIVE COUNTRIES TO REACH A PEACEFUL AND NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THEIR PROBLEMS. WE HAVE EUAD YQTUC EYECPORTED (COMMS NOTE CORRECTION REQUESTED) ALL EFFORTS AIMED AT FURTHERING THE PEACE PROCESS. WE
HAVE ALSO, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, APPEALED TO ALL THE PARTIES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INVOLVED TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE AGREEMENT IN LETTER AND SPIRIT AND TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE REGION'S EFFORTS FOR PEACE, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
TODAY WE ARE CONCERNED BY THE FACT THAT THE PEACE PROCESS IN SHOWING SIGNS OF LOSING MOMENTUM AND STAGNATING. ALTHOUGH PROGRESS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED IN SOME FIELDS, THE TWELVE NOTE THAT THE PRINCIPAL CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE AND LASTING PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERICA HAVE NOT YET BEEN MET.
OUR VIEW CONCERNING THE SOLUTION TO THE REGION'S PROBLEM IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEACE AND SI EMFDN (COMMS NOTE CORRECTION REQUESTED)
RESTS WITH EACH COUNTRY INDIVIDUALLY AND WITH ALL OF THEM COL- LECTIVELY. THE ARRANGEMENTS PROVIDED FOR IN THE ESQUIPULAS II AGREEMENT REPRESENT AN INDIVISIBLE ENTITY AND SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AS A WHOLE.
I MUST STRESS, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THERE WILL BE NO AUTHENTIC DEMOCRATIC PROCESS WITHOUT PLURALISM, INVOLVING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROMOTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. THERE WILL BE NO PEACE AND DEMOCRACY UNLESS THE SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF STATES AND THE
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