Unfortunately, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was absent from the meeting. Colombia and Ecuador broke diplomatic relations in March 2008, after Colombia’s army pursued FARC guerillas, who have been fighting Colombia’s government for decades, into Ecuadorean territory.
不幸的是，哥伦比亚总统Álvaro Uribe没有出席会议。在哥伦比亚军队追击FARC 游击队进入厄瓜多尔领土之后，两国于2008年三月断绝了外交关系。该游击队已经与哥伦比亚政府对抗了数十年。因此Uribe未能就新军事协议进行辩护。