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Declaration of Alvaro Uribe Velez

Alvaro Uribe Velez, former President of Colombia, declares that there is no valid extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States. While Colombia has extradited around 1200 individuals to the US for drug trafficking, it was not done based on a treaty because the treaty was never properly ratified according to Colombia's Supreme Court in 1986 and 1987. As such, Colombia's official position, held by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is that the extradition treaty is not in force.

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Declaration of Alvaro Uribe Velez

Alvaro Uribe Velez, former President of Colombia, declares that there is no valid extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States. While Colombia has extradited around 1200 individuals to the US for drug trafficking, it was not done based on a treaty because the treaty was never properly ratified according to Colombia's Supreme Court in 1986 and 1987. As such, Colombia's official position, held by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is that the extradition treaty is not in force.

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Case 1:16-mc-23468-UNA Document 39-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/31/2016 Page 1 of 1

DECLARATION OF ALVARO URIBE VELEZ

1. My name is Alvaro Uribe Velez. I served as the 31st President of the Republic
of Colombia from 2002 to 2010. Currently, I am serving as Senator, having been
elected in 2014.

2. I have reviewed the declaration by Tom Heinemann, who has given an opinion
that there is a valid extradition treaty between the United States and Colombia. He
is mistaken. There is no extradition treaty in force between the two countries.
However, extradition has been very important in the shared fight against narco
terrorism. My government extradited close to 1200 individuals to the United States
exclusively for narcotrafficking.

3. Colombia does not recognize the treaty as valid or in effect because it was not
properly ratified as explained by the Supreme Court of Justice in 1986 and
1987. Because Colombia never enacted "instruments of ratification," the documents
exchanged in 1982 had no effect. For this reason, Colombia's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs states that the extradition treaty is "not in force" and that is the official
position of the Colombian government.

4. Because the treaty was never legally ratified, there was no need to give notice
(either under the treaty or the Vienna Convention) that Colombia was terminating or
suspending operation of the treaty. There was nothing to terminate or suspend.

5. Although the two countries send individuals to the requesting country, especially
to combat narcotrafficking as explained above, this is not done pursuant to a treaty.

6. Please accept this declaration on behalf of Andres Felipe Arias Leiva. If this
Honorable Court requires any additional information, I would be more than happy to
provide it.

Bogota. October 31, 2016

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