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Pacific-Atlantic railroad will respect environment: Chinese premier
by Staff Writers
Lima (AFP) May 23, 2015


Chinese premier offers investment in post-conflict Colombia
Bogota (AFP) May 22, 2015 - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday his country would invest in a post-conflict Colombia, despite the uncertainty of stop-start peace talks between the Latin American nation and rebels to end decades of fighting.

Following a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota, Li said China could help boost the country's infrastructure if peace was reached.

"Colombia, in this process of promoting peace in the country, has a great demand and will create favorable conditions for the construction of infrastructure," Li said.

Li, who is on a tour of Latin American countries, stressed that China could "actively participate in post-conflict reconstruction."

The government has been in negotiations with rebels since 2012 to end a civil conflict in the country that has claimed some 200,000 lives.

On the same day Li and Santos met 18 rebels were killed in an air strike following the Colombian government's lifting of a ban on bombings after a guerrilla attack.

Talks had also resumed Thursday between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), but have been continually derailed by attacks from both sides, including the capture of a government general.

After their meeting, Santos thanked Li for a pledge of $8 million for post-conflict Colombia.

Trade between the two countries has grown massively in the last decade, reaching around $17 billion in 2014, Santos said.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said that the Beijing-funded project to build a vast railroad between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, across Peru, would respect the region's environment including the Amazon basin.

"The three countries agree on the fact that the viability of this project will not only be favorable to our common development but will also protect the environment," Li said upon arrival in Lima on Friday.

He is visiting Peru on a tour of South America that also includes trips to Brazil, Colombia and Chile.

"China respects Latin America's biodiversity," Li said.

"To create the infrastructure, it is necessary to protect the environment," he added in a joint declaration made with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala after they signed 10 cooperation accords.

Humala noted that China is Peru's principal trading partner.

Commerce between the two countries has more than doubled to $16 billion since a free trade agreement went into effect in 2010.

Peruvian exports to China mainly comprise mining products such as copper, zinc and iron.

The railroad could cost $10 billion. Humala said it would "consolidate Peru's geopolitical position as the natural entry to South America."

Peru wants to position itself as the regional hub for trade between Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region and already serves as an outlet port for several regional nations including Brazil.

Peru and China have special historical ties due to the arrival in Peru between 1849 and 1874 of more than 100,000 laborers who helped build the Peruvian economy through sugar production, guano collection and the building of railways.

El Callao, not far from the capital Lima, is the number one Pacific port in South America in terms of container traffic.


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