H. E. Mr. Néstor Osorio:

Buenaventura has been the Colombian headache for generations. For many of us it is unacceptable that what has been our main port - a third or half of our coffee is exported from there - has continued to be an area of poverty and neglect. Different governments have tried to develop responses to problems and to upgrade the area. The coffee federation has been instrumental in doing some projects and developing some activities and an integrated plan for the development of Buenaventura is being implemented. The infrastructure works that are planned to be developed in the Pacific area for connection with Cali and the north are in motion, but one of our frustrations, and I expect the Chairman have experienced this, is how the port of Buenaventura continues to be this way. The government is determined to make a change there.