Il The broad-based provisional government liberate our people once and for all. In the conviction that the greatest possible number of Salvadorans must be involved in the for peace and justice, we have proposed various al-
The proposal for the formation of a broad-based provisional search ternatives for solving the present crisis. Indeed, only a very government is the result of the advances of the revolutionary democratic forces of the Salvadoran people in the political and broad-based and very great exertion can extricate our country
States.
6 the escalating military spheres.
the oligarchic regime.
At the political and social forces as pos-
Under this government, private property
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and foreign investment will not be counterposed to the interests to intervention in the form of military aid from the US and
The term of this broad-based provisional government will be other countries, as well as an end to all arms shipments.
ing in it. It is understood that it is to serve only for a limited visional government.
determined by the time it takes to achieve its basic objectives, in accordance with the agreement among the forces participatperiod.
The basic objectives of the broad-based provisional government are the following
1. To restore independence and national sovereignty.
2. To dismantle the repressive apparatus and lay the foundations for genuine democracy. This will involve assuring the full exercise of human rights and political freedoms. It will be expressed by the broad participation of the people in achieving a definitive peace.
3. To meet the most urgent and immediate needs of the great masses of the Salvadoran people, to carry out basic meas ures to transform the economic and social structures.
Withdrawal of the American military advisors, an end
7. Purging the governmental armed forces and then giving them representation in the structures of the broad-based pro-
8. Investigation and trial of military personnel and civilians responsible for mass murder, political crimes, torture, kidnappings and violations of the rights of the individual. The killing of FMLN fighters, as well as of government military personnel, in battle does not constitute a crime.
9. The Supreme Court will set in motion investigation of the crimes against human rights and organize rapid trials. At the same time, it must purge and reorganize the judicial branch. Nongovernmental human-rights organizations that defended the people under the dictatorship will be asked to collaborate in these tasks.
10. Return of the exiles and refugees and an emergency
4. To lay the practical basis for resolving the present war program to settle returning refugees, displaced persons, war situation.
To prepare for, and hold general elections.
5.
At the top level, the broad-based provisional government will have a simplified structure. Its component bodies will be the following:
A Council of Government
A Cabinet of Ministers
A Consultative Council of State victims, former soldiers and families or individuals left destitute by the war on one side or the other and attend to their most pressing needs. In this task, the broad-based provisional government will ask for the help of international agencies and nongovernmental bodies.
i a chire pren to real the con
omic, educational and public health intrastructures destroyed or damaged by the war.
12. A moratorium on the debts of small and middle-sized
A Supreme Court
The broad-based provisional government will be made up of representatives of the workers movement, the peasant movement, teachers organizations, public employees organizations, professional associations, universities, political parties, employ- economy. ers organizations, representatives of the FMLN-FDR and of a purged national army.
The functioning of the government bodies will reflect this broad representation. Excluded from the government, however, will be those sectors or individuals who are opposed to the objectives of the broad-based provisional government or who are for maintaining the dictatorship. IIl The government platform
This platform outlines the basic framework and the essential measures that must direct the work of the broad-based provisional government. With the benefit of support and discussion by the various organizations, sectors and citizens, it will be transformed into a government program that will make it possible to further elaborate the solutions we have to provide to the most pressing problems posed by the development of our
We propose, to start with, a series of measures to be applied out its time in office. Immediate measures broad-based provisional government.
2. issued since 1980 that restrict individual and public liberties. rescinding of all sentences based on repressive and specialpowers decrees.
4. Full guarantees of the exercise of individual and public democratic liberties. A law must be passed establishing the right of agricultural and public workers to organize. be compensated for the damage to their property caused by the given legal status.
5.- Dissolution of the special security forces, the Death of a civil police force under the Ministry of the Interior. International Viewpoint 9 April 1984 businesses. A flexible finance program will be adopted suited to the needs of such businesses, both in the industrial and agricultural and stockraising sectors, to stimulate the revival of the
13. Setting and controlling of prices for basic necessities, with the aim of improving real wages. Readjustment and supervision of the trade in basic necessities.
14. Renegotiation of the foreign debt on the basis of recognizing the financial commitments made by previous governments.
15. Restoration of the autonomy of the University of El Salvador. It will also be allotted the financial resources necessary for its reorganizing and functioning. The campus facilities
will immediately be turned over to the legitimate authorities. [At present, the university campus is occupied by the military. - IV.]
16. A massive literacy campaign and a democratic program to train adults in the areas of public health, education, agriculture and husbandry, and local government.
17. A massive jobs plan based on stimulating state and private investment in those sectors that offer the best possiblities for putting people to work. An emergency program for acquiring the raw materials and producers goods essential for reviving the economy and to guarantee adequate trade channels and margins for producers.
S. stimulating and developing a program Ior organizing tr eople through a broadening and consolidation or local gover ment and neighborhood organizations. Involvement of these structures in the planning, execution and evaluation of projects to benefit the community.
Developing a program for mass communications by developing means of communication with a local focus.
20. Setting up of a board of elections that, on the basis of the agreement of the forces in the government, will prepare the way for free general elections. A reliable electoral register will be established. Economic and social reforms
1. To lay the foundations for completion of the agrarian reform by assuring the right of rural workers to participate in
Developing a program of cooperative or-
2. Relations with the United States:
2.1 It will propose agreements to guarantee the national security of both countries, including the following steps that correspond to this objective:
The broad-based provisional government will pledge not to permit the installation of foreign military bases or missiles on its territory. For its part, the government of the United States must pledge not to instigate acts of aggression or de stabilization operations against the broad-based provisional government or against the government that finally emerges
The Salvadoran government will not allow the national territory to be used for destabilization operations the governments of neighboring countries, nor will it allow the transit of foreign arms and troops across its territory.
It will promote the signing of nonaggression treaties and agreements guaranteeing nonintervention in the internal affairs of the countries in the region.
The relations between Salvador and the United States and Central America will be reoriented on the basis of unconditional respect for the right of self-determination. This involves the following:
Striving to achieve Morazan's ideal of Central American unity and to rid our region of foreign troops. The Salvadoran government will not participate in military blocs, and therefore it will withdraw from CONDECA.
It will take an active part in promoting and building regional bodies to guarantee a political solution to international disputes and will sign treaties fostering economic, social and political integration.
its implementation. ganization involving the small farmers.
2. To lay the foundations for thoroughgoing nationaliza- IV Procedures tion of the country's banking and financial system, with the aim of putting the financial and credit system to the service of the great masses of the people.
3. Laying the bases for reforming the system of foreign trade by extending control over the export of the country's main products — coffee, cotton, sugar, fish and meat.
Controls will also be extended to the importing of raw materials, producers goods, parts and technology important for pro-
To lay the bases for a proper solution of the housing problems of low-income sectors, as well as for the progressive expansion of social security services. To provide also for reorienting foreign investment so that it contributes in fact to meeting publie needs. Foreign policy
The broad-based provisional government will pursue a toreign policy based on the following criteria:
1. The broad-based provisional government will follow a world policy oriented toward maintaining peace, opposing the arms race and opposing nuclear weapons. It will defend the principles of peaceful coexistence, self-determination and nonintervention. To this end, it will take the following steps:
It will join the Movement of Nonaligned States, and in line with this reinforce the struggle against colonialism, neocolonialism, Zionism, racial discrimination and apartheid.
Diplomatic relations with other countries will be established without regard to their social systems on the basis of the national interest.
The broad-based provisional government will meet the commitments made in the world bodies and will seek to take an active part in international forums to discuss and find solutions for the problems arising from the economic relations between
It will reaffirm the aspiration of Bolivar [i.e., the goal of Latin-American unity - IV] and therefore it will strive to proparticipate in regional forums that strengthen the position of the Latin American countries for dealing with regional problems of political, diplomatic, economic, financial 8 proce orde to lose men nei proposal i nee to bei ing points: 1. The participants a) The conflicting parties:
1. A delegation from the FMLN-FDR 2. A delegation representing the government, the armed forces of El Salvador, and the US special envoy for Central America, or another representative of the
United States.
b) Mediators without powers of arbitration, named on the basis of agreement between the parties.
c) International witnesses, such as representatives from the Contadora Group or other democratic governments.
a) Direct dialogue without preconditions organized by one or various mediators either on their own initiative or at the request of the parties, leading to substantive negotiations, the establishment of the agenda, selection of the witnesses and the setting of the procedures.
b) Direct negotiations between the conflicting parties, with the mediators serving as the hosts for these meetings and in the presence of ambassadors from the countries chosen as witnesses.
Once this process of dialogue and negotiations is initiated and reaches an advanced stage, the FMLN-FDR express their willingness to negotiate a ceasefire.
Once these accords are reached, the documents will be signed by the conflicting parties, the witnesses in their capacity as guarantors, and by the mediators.
The agreement will immediately begin to go into effect in accordance with the dates and conditions agreed on. This process will culminate in the organization of a single national army incorporating the FMLN forces and the purged governmental armed forces. Until such time, both armies will retain their weapons.
General Command of the FMLN Executive Committee of the FDR El Salvador January 31, 1984 International Viewpoint 9 April 1984