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PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Hold on one second.  You know, I just realized there may be Spanish press here and that was a long statement, but if you don't mind I'm going to go ahead and have that translated just so your people can get it.  I'm sorry, I should have slowed down; I forgot.

Q    President Obama, did you talk something about reelection?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Hold on one second. 

(Spanish translation.)

PRESIDENT URIBE:  President Obama, I want to express our gratitude again to you, to your Cabinet, and to the United States.  Colombia in this alliance with the United States has received a great help for us to confront the challenges our people have suffered for long, long time.

I have said to President Obama that Colombia, since the middle of the '40s, in the last century, has not lived one single day in complete peace.  The help of your government is very important for the hope of the new generations of Colombians.  Thank you, President Obama. 

We have had opportunity to speak about many problems, as President Obama has said.  I said to President Obama, I made to him some comments about confidence in Colombia; about security, the advances, the problems we still face; about investment, its relationship with the free trade agreement as a signal to give confidence in Colombia; and about social cohesion, the advances in education, in micro-lending, in health -- the problems we still face, problems in poverty, in income distribution. 

And in the case of human rights, Colombia is rule of law in the utmost expression of public opinion participation.  We -- I am the first with a duty to support of our armed forces, but for that reason of their honor, every soldier, every policeman in Colombia understands that we need credibility for this policing of democratic security, and credibility depends on effectiveness and on transparency.  And transparency is a question of human rights.

Therefore, we are open, we are very receptive, to receive any advice, any suggestion on how we are going to fulfill our goal of ceasing civil violations of human rights in Colombia.

About surveillance, I have said to President Obama that during our administration we have restructured 427 state agencies and we are in the process to restructure the state agency for surveillance.  We hope to issues these decrees in the coming three weeks, and we hope that we can solve the endemic problems of these institutions, of this institution for good.

I have said to President Obama about the importance of the help of the United States for us and the region as a whole to advance social cohesion; help directly from the United States or through the multilateral banks.  For instance, in education and in child nutrition, we have advanced a lot, but we lack infrastructure; coverage has surpassed infrastructure.  In child nutrition, we have advanced a lot, but we lack coverage in education for those under six, not to mention other of our problems.  But we have a recognition to advance in security, human rights, state restructure, to advance in economics, to advance in social cohesion, and for all these things it is very important to have the permanent support of President Obama, of the government of the United States, of the Congress of the United States.

My gratitude again, President Obama.  And we are waiting for you in Colombia.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you.

Q    President Obama, did you talk about the reelection?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Hold on, hold on.  We're going to do -- we only have time for two questions.  I'm going to call on a U.S. reporter, and then President Uribe, you can make a decision on which one of the Colombian reporters you want to call on.

So, Doug Palmer of Reuters.

Q    Right here.  Thank you very much.  You talked about the FTA, and you also talked about some of the obstacles to getting the FTA through Congress.  I wonder, do you have a sense of how close Colombia is to where it needs to be in order for you to send the agreement to Congress?  Is that something that can be accomplished this year?

And then I also wondered if you would comment on the coup in Honduras and what additional steps the U.S. might be considering there.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, let me first of all speak about the coup in Honduras, because this was a topic of conversation between myself and President Uribe.

All of us have great concerns about what's taken place there.  President Zelaya was democratically elected.  He had not yet completed his term.  We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the President of Honduras, the democratically elected President there.  In that we have joined all the countries in the region, including Colombia and the Organization of American States.

I think it's -- it would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections.  The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America.  We don't want to go back to a dark past.  The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies, but over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don't always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable towards the United States.  And that is a tradition that we want to continue.

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