bush, as well as my predecessors andres pastrana and alvaro uribe, the secretaries, ministers, ambassadorsnd high officials of both governments, the senators, the congressmen of the united states and of colombia, the leaders and members of the armed forces and the police of both countries, of businessmen and so many people who have contributed to this plan, thank you all very much. and thank you to you, president obama, because you've not only maintained your support for plan colombia but you have inspired us to find a better and deeper partnership between our two countries. today we can say without a doubt that the goals that we had in 2000 such as fighting the drug war, strengthening institutions, and imposing the rule of law, and to take social programs to great parts of remote colombian territory have been -- those objectives have been met. today's colombia is much, much different from the colombia of 15 years ago. our country at that time was going through the worst recession -- economic recession of the last 70 or 80 years. we were very far from controlling our own territory. and we