Please find the declaration and the signatories below (translation by UNPO):

We, parliamentarians participating in the Euro–Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), in Santiago de Chile, express our concern regarding the situation of the Mapuche people in Chile.

We are alarmed by the heavy militarization that is taking place in the Mapuche territories, as well as by the application of emergency laws and the anti-terrorism law, dating from the time of the dictatorship. The Mapuche people are suffering from forms of legal state terrorism, seeking to demobilize, depoliticize and punish the social movements that support the Mapuche cause.

It concerns us deeply that the response of the Chilean government to the legitimate demands of the Mapuche people to recover their ancestral territories, respect, autonomy and self-determination, is not taking place in the form of a dialogue, but in the form of criminalization and repression.

We urge the Chilean government to respect the rights of the Mapuche people, to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples as enshrined in ILO Convention 169, and to respond to the demands of the political prisoners on hunger strike, who are in a very critical condition at the moment.

Santiago de Chile, 25 January 2013

Gloria Oquelí, EuroLat co-president ,Honduras

Dr Rosinha, Parlasur, Brasil.

Ana Miranda, European Parliament, Galicia.

Guillermo Carmona, Parlasur, Argentina.

Willy Meyer, Co-Vice-presidente EuroLat, Spain.

José Bayardi, Parlasur, Uruguay.

Inês Zuber, European Parliament, Portugal.

Rodrigo Cabezas, Parlatino, Venezuela.

Vicente Garcés, European Parliament, Spain.

Dorindo Cortez, Co-Vice-presidente EuroLat, Panamá.

Raül Romeva i Rueda European Parliament, Cataluña.

Gloria Flores, Parlandino, Colombia.

Andrés Perelló, European Parliament, Spain.

Tubal Paez, Parlatino, Cuba.

Jürgen Klute, European Parliament, Germany.

Hilaria Supa Huaman, Parlandino, Perú.

Jose Leonel Búcaro, President of Parlacen, Salvador.

Catherine Grèze, European Parliament, France.

Doreen Ibarra, Parlatino, Uruguay.

Blanca Coto Estrada, Parlacen, Salvador.

Jose Simpson, Parlacen, Panamá.

Saïd Zavala, Parlacen, Nicaragua.

Julio Salazar, Parlatino, Bolivia.

Roy Daza, Parlatino, Venezuela.

Diego Aquino Acosta, Parlacen, Dominican Republic.

William Hernández, Parlacen, Salvador.

Vicente Zeballos, Parlatino, Perú.

Maria Irigoyen, European Parliament, Spain.

Eduardo Encalada, Parlatino, Ecuador.

Alberto Adrianzén, Parlandino, Perú

Please click here for the original Spanish version of the declaration.