The Government of Colombia informs the following:

1. In October 2008, the Armed Forces of Colombia impounded three rocket launchers from a camp of the Farc narcoterrorist group, at La Macarena in the Meta Department.

2. The Swedish Government has confirmed that the material was manufactured in Sweden and sold to Venezuela in 1988.

3. Sweden has asked Venezuela for an explanation.

4. On 2 June, during a private meeting in San Pedro de Sula (Honduras), the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Jaime Bermúdez, gave the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a document containing evidence of the Farc narcoterrorist group possessing these rocket launchers, which were part of a batch sold by the Government of Sweden to the Government of Venezuela in 1988.

5. In that same meeting of 2 June in San Pedro de Sula, Foreign Minister Bermúdez also handed over documented information in which two leaders of the Farc narcoterrorist group mention the collaboration received from three senior officials of the Venezuelan Government in the delivery of some rocket launchers, with similar characteristics to the ones impounded by the Armed Forces in La Macarena.

6. The Government of Colombia handed over the information discreetly in order to obtain clarification from Venezuela.

7. To date, Venezuela has not responded, despite our permanent and reiterative disposition for dialogue.

8. The Government of Colombia has received additional information which confirms that the Farc narcoterrorist group has been trying to obtain earth-air missiles.

9. The Farc narcoterrorist group is arranging the acquisition of the earth-air missiles through international weapons traffickers form other countries.

10. The Government of Colombia has asked and is asking these other countries for collaboration to avoid this terrorist weapon trafficking and capture the traffickers.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica, July 29 2009.