Communiqué of the Presidents of the Andean Community of Nations

We, the Presidents of the Andean Community of Nations and the Prime Minister of Peru, gathered at the Third Summit of the Americas, while reaffirming our full support for the approval of an Inter-American Democratic Charter, and within the context of the Andean commitment on the same subject, ratify our rejection of all actions, regardless of their nature, that are aimed at impairing or hindering the full exercise of the democratic mandate of their governments or at altering their constitutionally-fixed terms.

In that connection, we declare our solidarity with the efforts being made by the Government of Bolivia under the leadership of President Hugo Banzer Suárez for the purpose of strengthening his country’s democratic institutions. We are, further, in agreement with the importance of respecting the constitutionally-fixed terms, as an essential condition for attaining those objectives and for guaranteeing stability and consolidating the participation of the citizenry in this process.

Quebec, April 22, 2001

Andrés Pastrana Arango
President of Colombia

Gustavo Noboa Bejarano
President of Ecuador

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Prime Minister of Peru

Hugo Chávez Frías
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela