The European Union welcomes all recent initiatives in pursuit of humanitarian agreements that can secure the release of all hostages, end the armed conflict and bring peace to Colombia taken with the Colombian government's support.

In this sense, the EU follows with interest the mediation efforts of the President of Venezuela and supports the work of all those committed to the application of international humanitarian law in Colombia.

 
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia align themselves with this declaration.

* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.