The CONAIE has insisted upon transparency, participation, democracy and equity with all governments, and has fought for national demands because the indigenous peoples and nationalities have, above all, fought for the creation of a democratic and plurinational state for all Ecuadorians. We have proposed a new State model for the entire country, based in the recognition of the rights of all, a State that encompasses diversity within unity, in which economic democracy is as important as political and social democracy, all in a harmonic, tolerant and respectful manner. We have proposed the Plurinational State as the only guarantee for democracy in the widest sense possible, and the only opportunity for respect of the differences and diversity our continent is composed of.

For these reasons, the CONAIE, complying with the mandate given to it by its grassroots supporters, has decided:

1.- To begin the national mobilization en different provinces throughout the national territory demanding that the government immediately remove itself from all Free Trade Agreement negotiations it is partaking in with the United States; the definitive expulsion of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), the nationalization of oil; and the urgent summoning of the National Constituent Assembly.
2.- The continuation of the mobilizations has been reaffirmed in coordination with the provincial organizations: the taking of highways, popular assemblies and marches on Quito, in order to demand that the current political regime comply with the commitments it made in its capacity as transitional government.
3.- Summon the Ecuadorian populace to support the national indigenous mobilization, and impel, in a most decisive manner, all actions in coordination with the social movements of the country.
4.- Instruct the deputy block of the Pachakutik Movement so as to permit them to create the proper alliances and undertake necessary action in order for the Alfredo Palacio administration to be tried for treason, immediately removed from office, and push for the creation of a government which will urgently summon a National Constituent Assembly,

Signed and delivered in the city of Quito, March 13, 2006


Political Commission
Indigenous Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador
CONAIE