The Communist and workers’ Parties that subscribe, in the framework of the XIV International Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties that gathers in Beirut, Lebanon, express the following with regard to the situation in Colombia:

• Dialogues are only possible if both parts facilitate them with a cease fire that allows the broad participation of the people. We salute the unilateral decision of the FARC-EP in this sense.
• We demand full guarantees so that political, trade union, peasant, student organizations and all social forces can express themselves in such dialogues for peace. We condemn the intimidation and repression campaign against the Patriotic Rally, the Colombian Communist Party and the weekly newspaper Voz.
• We demand that FARC-EP be retired from the criminalizing list of the US and the EU. At the same time that the status of belligerent force be recognized to FARC-EP.

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Declaração sobre a paz na Colômbia

Os Partidos Comunistas e Operários que subscrevem esta moção, no âmbito do XIV Encontro Internacional dos Partidos Comunistas e Operários que ocorre em Beirute, no Líbano, expressam o seguinte em relação à situação na Colômbia:

• Os diálogos apenas são possíveis se ambas as partes os facilitarem com um cessar-fogo que permita a ampla participação do povo. Saudamos a decisão unilateral das FARC-EP neste sentido.

• Exigimos garantias plenas para que as organizações políticas, sindicais, camponesas, estudantis e todas as forças sociais possam se expressar nesses diálogos para a paz. Condenamos a intimidação e a campanha de repressão contra a Marcha Patriótica, o Partido Comunista Colombiano e o jornal semanalVoz.

• Exigimos que as FARC-EP sejam retiradas da lista de organizações terroristas dos EUA e da UE. Ao mesmo tempo, que seja reconhecido ostatusde força beligerante às FARC-EP.

The Parties:

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS)

Communist Party of Azerbaijan

Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain

Communist Party of Bangladesh

Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)

Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B)

Communist Party of Britain

Communist Party of Canada

Communist Party of China

Croatian Socialist Workers’ Party

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party in Denmark

Communist Party of Egypt

Egyptian Communist Party

Communist Party of Finland

French Communist Party (PCF)

German Communist Party (DKP)

Communist Party of Greece (KKE)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Iraqi Communist Party

Communist Party of Kurdistan - Iraq

Communist Party of Ireland

Workers’ Party of Ireland

Party of the Italian Communist

Party of the Refoundation of Italy

Jordanian Communist Party

Lebanese Communist Party

Communist Party of Mexico

The New Communist Party of Netherlands

Communist Party of Norway

Palestinian Communist Party

Portuguese Communist Party

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Workers Party of Russia - Revolution Party of Communists (RKRP-RPC)

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

South African Communist Party

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of Cataluña

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Sudanese Communist Party

Communist Party of Sudan

Communist Party of Sweden

Syrian Communist Party

Communist Party of Tajikistan

Communist Party of Turkey

Union of Communists of Ukraine

CPUSA