Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World

World Citizens Assembly
Lille- December 2 to 10, 2001

Regional Group

ANDEAN REGION

General objectives:

1.	To build an integration process in the Andean region starting from socioeconomic and cultural entities beyond the current frontiers
1.1	To recognize and to recover integral entities, local and pluricultural territories
1.2	To have an effect on the political decisions of the Andean Pact through the articulation of civil society’s proposals
1.3	To build a common calendar on the basis of the themes that are most relevant at the local level 

2.	To build alternative proposals to the current economic model that will guarantee equity, well-being and respect for the resources of the region
2.1	To demand that our governments apply a combined strategy to face the problem of the foreign debt with the purpose of dedicating these resources to social investment 
2.2	To facilitate processes of articulation of the presently active socioeconomic actors and networks 
2.3	To build proposals for a common economic integration
2.4	To fight for the defense of our resources, mainly in the Amazon region
2.5 To recognize and to defend the natural resources of the region and to promote their management in terms of the collective interest
 
3.	To build a participatory, inclusive democracy that will empower individual and collective citizenship
3.1	To support the social movements of the region
3.2	To research and systematize the current social movements and their potentialities for an integration of the region
3.3	To circulate the work of the social movements at every level
3.4	To work for a process of reform of the state
3.5	To recognize the strengths and weaknesses of our organizations / institutions
3.6	To integrate groups of young people in the regional dynamics

4.	To fight for peace; against all types of violence and of the actions that they promote, by reaffirming the human values in social relations that will guarantee a peaceful coexistence with social justice.
4.1 Control by society over those who exercise public office and over the monopoly and abuse of power of the media
4.2	To establish mechanisms of social responsibility, transparency, and fight against corruption by means of international tribunals
4.3	To promote the recapture and respect of our cultures and their practices
4.4	To reformulate the educational system at every level
4.5	To promote exchanges among social actors; university students, Native Indians, local inhabitants, micro-business entrepreneurs, women, young people, and the authorities
4.6	To seek consistency between speech and practice

CONCRETE WORK (six months)

To create a Web page, information for those present in the group, a distribution forum; exchange

Clarification campaigns for the Colombia Plan of the Andean Initiative: to reinforce existing ones

Pressure for the cancellation of visas in our countries: free entry and circulation

Political literacy among our peoples

Dialogue with the FFAAs

Research on the war industry

Integration of the universities of the Andean region

Mapping of the social movements