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PRESIDENT URIBE: Finally let me make a point on democratic security. The main point in any state of law and order is the level of public opinion participation. We call our system of government a common -– system of government, because we recognize the highest level of public opinion participation. We recognize a necessary equilibrium between representation and participation.
The more the people participate, with their government to make decisions, to execute decisions, and to supervise how the nation is going on, the better for the transparency and for the effectiveness. Any policy, such as the policy on democratic security needs to be sustainable in the long-term. And for sustainability, this policy needs public opinion support. And for the public opinion to give support to this policy, or to the other, the policy for creating investment confidence, we need credibility.
And in security there are two pillars for credibility, effectiveness and transparency. And transparency is equal to human rights. I want to reinstate here our commitment with human rights. We’ll discuss in the international area, but we are totally open to international vigilance, to international supervision.
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