Monseñor Ezzati Hopes to Start Dialogue table as Soon as Mapuche

SANTIAGO .- The Archbishop of Concepción, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati said this morning that in his role as "facilitator" for negotiations between the Mapuche and the government hopes it can establish the negotiating table soon.

According to the priest, the level of urgency to reach a solution to the Mapuche conflict is "dictated by the health status of community members" and said he personally will work "for this roundtable is established soon.

The main issue to be addressed in this first part, according to Ezzati "is the theme of life, therefore, we must exhaust all resources for the life of the Mapuche can be maintained and may have development around the world expected, ie it can overcome the hunger strike. "

In an interview with Radio Cooperativa, the archbishop of the capital of the Bío Bío warned that "the Mapuche want to put on the table what they are asking not to be judged by the antiterrorism law, have a fair trial."
"Then in a table that will last for much longer, other issues of common interest, both the Mapuche and the Chilean State and need to be dialogue because just play requests that can not be solved overnight "he added.
The facilitator said that it had finally telephone contacts with family "and we have established that we will meet today to put issues on the table to facilitate this dialogue."