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1214 OF 2008
(July 16)
Official Journal No. 47,052 of 16 July 2008
CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC
By means of which the Agreement for the Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous Populations of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Venezuela, signed in Caracas at three (3) days of the month, is approved May of a thousand nine hundred and ninety (1990).
COLOMBIA CONGRESS
DECRETA:
Article 1o. Approve the "Agreement for Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous Populations of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Venezuela", signed in Caracas at three (3) days of the month of May thousand nine hundred and ninety.
Article 2o. In accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of Law 7ª of 1944, the Agreement for the Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous People of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Colombia of Venezuela, signed in Caracas at the three (3) days of the month of May of a thousand nine hundred and ninety that under article 1 of this law is approved, will force the country from the date on which the international bond is perfected same.
Article 3o. This law governs from the date of its publication.
The President of the honorable Senate of the Republic,
NANCY PATRICIA GUTIERREZ CASTANEDA.
The Secretary General of the honorable Senate of the Republic,
EMILIO RAMON OTERO DAJUD.
The President of the honorable House of Representatives,
OSCAR GROVE PALACIO.
Agreement for the Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous Populations of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Venezuela.
The Government of the Republic of Colombia and the Government of the Republic of Venezuela. Recital, the Declaration of Urena, signed by the Presidents of both States, on March 28, 1989 at the General Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge;
Whereas the conclusions of the meeting of the Binational Commission for the Colombian-Venezuelan Border Integration; held in Maracaibo on 25 and 26 August 1989 and ratified at the meeting held in Cucuta on 29 and 30 June. September 1989;
Recital, the declaration signed by the Presidents of Colombia Virgilio Barco and of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez, at the General Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge on October 5, 1989.
Have agreed to the following:
The Parties undertake to collaborate in the joint development of plans, programs and projects aimed at improving the living conditions of their respective Wayuu indigenous populations located in areas adjacent to the border of the region. Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Colombia to the needs of these populations.
It will be organs of execution of this Agreement, by the Republic of Venezuela, the Development Corporation of the Zuliana Region, Corpozulia, and by the Republic of Colombia the Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira, Corpoguajira.
The parties will coordinate the necessary works and actions between the competent entities of each of them in order to make possible the elaboration and execution of binational projects for the development of the Wayuu indigenous communities of each of the Parties.
For the achievement of the overall objectives of the Agreement, the Parties shall develop the following actions:
1. Conduct a simultaneous census of their respective indigenous Wayuu nationals, domiciled in areas adjacent to each country's borders.
2. Develop a study to determine the establishment of a means of identification that allows indigenous nationals of each Contracting Party to free transit through the borders of both States.
3. Develop a study that will lead to the strengthening of bilingual intercultural education. This study will mainly cover aspects such as teacher training, ethnocultural research, the provision of scholarships for technical and higher education, levelling up for university entrance, and the provision of schools. to Wayuu indigenous students from both Parties.
4. Jointly develop a plan for the use of the water resources of La Guajira, in order to seek solutions to the problem of water supply to the Wayuu indigenous population of both Parties contemplating different alternatives such as jagueyes, windmills, deep and/or shallow wells, well-anelled wells, etc.
5. Study the possibility of establishing a binational station for research and exploitation of arid and semi-arid zones in order to determine the goods and services that these ecosystems can contribute to the development of the communities rural areas, and for the practice of certain activities such as capriculture, cuniculture, agriculture, beekeeping, fish farming and fisheries.
6. To entrust to Corpozulia and Corpoguajira the elaboration, in coordination and with the advice of the entities of the branch in each Party, of a study to establish the common use of the hospital services and of centers and health places, in the zone The border is inhabited by the Wayuu indigenous population of each Contracting Party, jointly carry out sanitary and epidemiological control campaigns in that area, as well as to promote that the students of the last year of medicine of both countries, carry out their internship and rural year in the common area of the Colombo-Venezuelan border.
7. To promote research on the problems of the Wayuu indigenous population of both Parties, in the higher education centers, that will allow students to apply them in concrete projects that improve the living standards of the inhabitants of the region. area adjacent to the borders of both States.
8. Study together the possibility of establishing a special scheme for the products that make up the basic food of the family group to be released from customs duties and formalities.
Parties may agree to include any other activities they deem necessary for the achievement of the objectives of this Agreement.
The Parties will jointly define the financing mechanisms to cover the implementation costs of this Agreement, through Corpozulia and Corpoguajira.
Corpozulia and Corpoguajira will draw up an Annual Operations Plan that will concretize this Agreement.
The Annual Operations Plan shall include the terms of reference of the actions provided for in this Agreement or those that are subsequently included, specifying objectives, work schedules indicating date of initiation and termination, quantity and characteristics of the programmed resources and the contribution of the Parties.
Representatives of Corpozulia and Corpoguajira will meet regularly, at least twice a year, to prepare the Annual Operations Plan, evaluate the activities carried out and make adjustments that they consider necessary to the Plan of Operations and propose, if appropriate, amendments to this Agreement.
Corpozulia and Corpoguajira will have the technical support of the competent entities in each country, to structure, execute and evaluate the activities that are stipulated in the plans, programs and projects to be developed.
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date on which the Parties notify each other in writing that they have complied with the requirements of their respective internal legislation for approval. It shall be for a period of four (4) years, extendable for equal periods and may be denounced at any time by either Party by written notification to the other Party, with sixty (60) days in advance.
Signed in Caracas at three (3) days of the month of May of a thousand nine hundred and ninety, in two (2) copies in Spanish, equally authentic.
By the Republic of Colombia,
JAVIER DAZA TOVAR,
Chairman Board President
Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira.
By the Republic of Venezuela,
EZIO RINALDI,
President
Zuliana Region Development Corporation.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF PUBLIC POWER
REPUBLIC OF THE REPUBLIC
Bogotá, D. C., June 20, 2003.
Approved. Submit to the consideration of the honorable National Congress for Constitutional Effects
(Fdo.) ALVARO URIBE VELEZ
The Foreign Minister
(Fdo.) Carolina Barco Isakson.
DECRETA:
Article 1o. Approve the "Agreement for Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous Populations of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Venezuela", signed in Caracas at three (3) days of May of a thousand nine hundred and ninety (1990).
Article 2o. In accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of Law 7ª of 1944, the "Agreement for the Integral Development and Basic Assistance of the Wayuu Indigenous People of the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of the Republic of Colombia of Venezuela ", signed in Caracas at three (3) days of the month of May of a thousand nine hundred and ninety (1990), which by article 1o of this law is approved, will force the country from the date on which the international bond is perfected of the same.
Article 3o. This law governs from the date of its publication.
Dada en Bogotá, D. C., a los
Presented to the honorable Congress of the Republic by the Minister of the Interior and Justice and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Minister of the Interior and Justice,
CARLOS HOLGUIN SARDI.
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
FERNANDO ARAUJO PERDOMO.
COLOMBIA-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
Communicate and comply.
Execute, upon revision of the Constitutional Court, in accordance with article 241-10 of the Political Constitution.
Dada en Bogotá, D. C., 16 July 2008.
ALVARO URIBE VELEZ
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the office of the Foreign Minister,
CAMILO REYES RODRIGUEZ.
