UN General Assembly
2007

that murders and kidnappings have been the work of terrorists. First, it was the Marxist guerrillas who, in introducing their perverse scheme of a so-called combination of all forms of struggle, murdered, kidnapped and penetrated sectors of workers, students, politicians and journalists. Then came the paramilitaries, and they did the same, murdering workers and accusing them of collaborating with the guerrillas, which in reciprocity murdered those whom they believed to be friends with the paramilitaries. In certain parts of the country, the confrontation between the two guerrilla factions that still exist leads to the murder of workers. Overcoming that scourge once and for all is an inalienable objective of our democratic security policy. In that regard, our three Government objectives are to consolidate democratic security, strengthen investor confidence, and achieve our social programme, which is more ambitious than the millennium social goals that we hope to meet before the date set by the United Nations. With regard to democratic security, we are winning, but we have not won yet. With persistence and transparency, Colombia will overcome terrorism