Continue the agenda
Once the extension of the ceasefire has been agreed, there are also other issues on the table such as commitments to respect the civilian population, not only in relation to kidnapping or deprivation of liberty, and other issues such as “comprehensive transformations against illicit economies”, as detailed this week by the Government’s chief negotiator, Camilo González Posso.
They also want to address the construction of an “environmental agenda with decisions that are expected to be immediately applied in the Amazon area, on issues of no deforestation, respect for organizations and their autonomy, and response to communities in this matter,” González specified.
These issues have also been discussed in the other meetings between the Government and the EMC, which had ups and downs and a break in the talks after in November they accused each other of non-compliance with the agreement due to military operations in an area in the southwest of the country.
In this sense, on November 5, the EMC decided to suspend the dialogue table, which was set up just 21 days before and included a bilateral ceasefire, due to a “total non-compliance” by the State with the commitments made, since who denounced that the Military Forces had not abandoned an area of the department of Cauca (southwest) from which it had been agreed that they would leave.
This announcement came after the retention of nearly 200 soldiers who had arrived in the town of El Plateado (Cauca) to guarantee the security of the mayoral and gubernatorial elections on October 29.
Days later the community, under pressure from the EMC, forced the military to leave the area, while the guerrilla also asked them to leave their areas of influence such as the Micay Canyon.
That episode, however, is considered over and conversations are progressing privately. It is expected that at the end of the cycle, in four days, they will provide the press with an assessment of what was discussed.