Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Wednesday that the Organization of American States (OAS) should take a quick response to Ecuador-Colombia diplomatic crisis.
Amorim told a press conference in Brasilia that he had talked with the secretary general of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza, asking for "a quick solution in a bid to preserve credibility of the organization."
The OAS held discussions about the crisis. At a Tuesday meeting of the OAS, both Ecuador and Venezuela strongly opposed the action taken by Columbia.
There was not a consensus of what should be done in Tuesday's session and the meetings were suspended until late Wednesday afternoon.
According to Amorim, Brazil proposed to set up an investigation commission and the OAS is the best for the inquiry.
But he said he would not discard the possibility to ask for an institution out of the OAS to do the investigation, in case that the OAS rejects Brazil's proposal.
Tension between Colombia and its two neighbors has been escalating since Saturday when Colombian government forces entered Ecuadorian territory in a raid on rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The FARC is the biggest rebel group in Colombia that has been fighting government forces since the mid-1960s, the longest in Latin America. The conflict is believed to lead to the deaths of more than 3,000 people each year.
Source:Xinhua
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