BOGOTA (AFP) -- President Alvaro Uribe late Monday backed Ecuador's proposal for an international force to monitor the two country's shared border, three days after a tense regional crisis was averted.

""I don't rule it out and I'm not against it,"" Uribe said of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's proposal.
Speaking with reporters in northern Riohacha, Uribe said he wanted ""total transparency, and if that's one solution, the Colombian government does not rule it out.""
Ecuadorian Internal Security Minister Gustavo Larrea had earlier said his government wanted either an Organization of American States (OAS) force or UN troops to ""ensure the monitoring of the border.""
OAS Secretary General Jose Manuel Insulza, who is in the region investigating a Colombian air raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador, rejected the idea of a multinational force.
""I think it's very, very difficult to control a border like this one,"" he said in Quito, referring to the Colombia-Ecuador border stretching some 600 kilometers (370 miles) mostly through Amazon jungle and Andean mountains.
Insulza headed an OAS committee that began investigating Bogota's March 1 cross-border raid on a Colombian rebel camp inside Ecuador that killed the group's second-in-command and yielded a trove of computer files.
The raid touched off a diplomatic row with Ecuador and Venezuela, both of whom sent troops to the border and suspended relations with Bogota.
The three countries resolved the dispute at a Latin American summit in Santo Domingo on Friday, with Colombia promising never to repeat such a raid again.
-Colombian rebels will not free Betancourt: guerrilla
Colombia's leftist FARC rebels have no intention of releasing their top hostage, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, a guerrilla who turned himself in last week told Caracol radio Monday.
""They won't release Ingrid for any reason. Let Yolanda (Pulecio, the hostage's mother) dwell on that,"" said Pablo Montoya, who surrendered on Thursday after killing Ivan Rios, one of FARC's seven topmost commanders, for a 2.6 million dollar reward.
Kidnapped in 2002 while campaigning for the Colombian presidency, Betancourt, 46, is the most prominent of FARC's hundreds of hostages, who along with three U.S. nationals are held as bargaining chips in the rebels' bid to swap them with imprisoned comrades.
Betancourt's fate -- a former hostage said recently she was very ill -- is closely followed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has offered to personally bring her back to France to her awaiting family should she be released.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have released six hostages since the start of the year, including four lawmakers and Betancourt's former aide, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a self-appointed mediator in Colombia's hostage crisis.