“Without a doubt, it is a fact of the greatest importance from which only positive things can emanate for society as a whole,” added the current president of the left-wing party. common.
Timochenkothe alias he used when he commanded the FARC, insisted that dialogue is the only way to end the war and invited the ELN to continue advancing in the search for peace.
“Today I can reaffirm that dialogue should always have been the route to ending the conflict. That is why I respectfully urge my ELN comrades, their command, their militancy and their sympathizers to advance decisively towards the conquest of a political agreement to end the military confrontation and thus start the construction of total peace,” he said.
In this sense, he made himself available to the government of Gustavo Petro to share the experience of the 2016 peace process and of which he was the main signatory for the FARC in Havanaa city where ELN representatives have also been based since 2018, a year before negotiations with the previous president broke down, Ivan Duke.
He also thanked Cuba for the efforts to resume the attempts to sign peace.
Lastly, Londoño reminded the ELN that the laying down of arms is a complex process, but that it is necessary to end the armed conflict in Colombia.
“Know that there is a people waiting for you with open arms, ready to surround you and support you in the struggle to finish the armed conflict“, he assured.
Colombia has been in an armed conflict for more than 50 years where different actors intervened and several peace agreements were signed.
Since Gustavo Petro’s victory in the June elections, the ELN leadership, including its top leader, Eliecer Chamorro Acostaaliases Anthony Garciashowed interest in resuming some peace agreements that had begun in February 2017 in Quito.
Later, they moved to Havana, where the last meeting took place last August without progress.
The talks were interrupted after the ELN did not agree to the demands of the Duque government, which finally suspended any type of dialogue indefinitely in January 2019, when there was an attack on a police cadet school in which Twenty people died.
Source: Ambito
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