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CONAI will complain to OAS

May 14, 2008

Quito

At the end of the month in Zamora indigenous people decide if they mobilized against the regime.

The indigenous movement grouped in the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAI) marked distances with the government of Rafael Correa and asked the Organization of American States (OAS) to monitor and rule on the official intention of not hosting the prior consent of communities before the exploitation of natural resources.

The decision was taken yesterday the leadership of CONAI in an extraordinary assembly, which also rejected expressions of Representative, who in his radio link last Saturday questioned the indigenous movement and minimized their political representation.

CONAI requested the International Labour Organization (ILO) to monitor the treatment of the Assembly to Convention 169, which recognizes the right of communities to prior consent.

The chairman of the CONAI, Marlon Santi said that the indigenous movement declares "open to an opposition political model of the President of the Republic" and seek the backing of assembly to ensure the adoption of the prior, free, informed and binding. "We have searched the spaces for dialogue, but not even the issue of multi achieved consensus within the movement COUNTRY," he said.

The leader Lourdes Tibana warned that if COUNTRY now will be used or not. "Hopefully that does not pass what happened in Venezuela that no matter how confident and pride is viró tortilla." Therefore, not discarded promote ratificatorio not in the referendum of the new Constitution. Jorge Guamán, national coordinator of Pachakutik, which announced until Thursday offices to the OAS to monitor the process.

The indigenous caucus ended Core "nobody is eternal in the world," in response to Correa, who at the weekend they sang "if you say goodbye, they are to be ...".

Kichwa Nationality of Napo support the referendum if it includes the multi-country and multiculturalism in the new Constitution.

The leadership of CONAI their bases to consult on possible mobilizations to Montecristi. To this end, plans a meeting in Zamora Chinchipe, from 29 to May 31 next.