“We emphasize from the Ombudsman that the illegal armed groups are echoing the invitation that we have been recommending for several weeks to show peace gestures that allow the consolidation of a dialogue process,” said the ombudsman.
Talks
On the occasion of the beginning of the negotiations between the Government and the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN), other armed groups, among them the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and even organizations that operate in Sierra Nevada, on the Caribbean coast, and Buenaventura, on the shores of Buenaventura Bay in the Pacific Ocean, announced the start of a unilateral truce.
Regarding these announcements, Camargo said that they will be “vigilant” with the ceasefire announced by the Magdalena Medio bloc (another of the FARC guerrilla subdivisional units) “so that they comply with the announced truce” in the regions of Norte de Santander, south of Bolívar and northeast of Antioch.
“We ask the FARC dissidents to hopefully cease definitively all the actions that have been affecting the communities in these areas of the country and in others where they are present,” the Ombudsman claimed.
“Will”
The authorities asked the rest of the armed groups to “show their will” and permanently join the ceasefire “in order to begin the dialogues as soon as possible” that will make it possible to put an end to the violence.
Yesterday, the government and the ELN announced that they will resume the peace dialogue that began this month at the end of January, and not at the beginning as originally planned.
The parties are analyzing scheduling and logistical conditions to resume talks in Mexico at the end of next month, government sources said.
The objective of the postponement is for representatives of other countries, such as Germany, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland to join the process as facilitators.
guarantors
Meanwhile, Chile and Mexico continue as guarantor countries and Cuba, Norway and Venezuela, as accompanying countries.
On the 12th of this month, the delegations concluded the first round of rapprochement, held in Caracas since November 22, with four partial agreements.
One of them is a humanitarian pact that will come into effect in January and will allow the return of hundreds of displaced families to the regions of Bajo Calima, Chocó, Medio San Juan and Valle del Cauca.
The Colombian government and the ELN had begun peace talks in 2016, during the administration of Juan Manuel Santos, who had just signed a similar agreement with the FARC, but those negotiations were frozen in 2018 by Santos’s successor, Iván Duque, after the ELN attacked a police school and left 22 dead.
The resumption of the dialogue was one of the priorities of the current president Petro since his electoral campaign and then, from his inauguration, last August.
Source: Ambito
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