Weekly Report - 23 March 2004

"Disarmament is extremely important but if the bad guys still have the weapons it won't be a secure country."

US Marine General Ronald Coleman, commanding the force in Haiti, on the surrender of weapons by armed groups.


"We can state that there is a drug-trafficking monopoly of the Farc, the ELN and the self-defence [paramilitary] groups."

General Jorge Castro, chief of police, Colombia, on the significance of recent raids.


"[The 1992 constitution] came out wholly defective, in many cases."

Nicanor Duarte, President of Paraguay, on plans to reform the constitution.