Thank you for that.
We have a recent report by CENSA, which indicates that “Human rights violations, widespread in Colombia, are linked to efforts by those behind Colombia's paramilitaries to create conditions for investment from which they are positioned to benefit.” They certainly talk in this report about the palm oil plantations and the forced displacement of African Colombians.
I would like to come back to the issue of torture and the African Colombian community. Do you agree with this report's conclusion that often those investment conditions help to propel human rights violations?
I think you've been very clear that this agreement should not be pushed through. Do you see it as a reward for a government that clearly is not acting yet according to the standards that the international community would demand of it?
Finally, what other witnesses could you suggest to us as we go, probably in 2010, into a study on Colombia, if Parliament chooses to do so?