This Monday, the sixth cycle of dialogues between the Colombian Government and the ELN began in Cuba
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Published at: 22/01/2024 10:44 PM
The sixth cycle of peace negotiations between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN), began this Monday in Havana, Cuba, in search of renewing the bilateral ceasefire agreed in August 2023, the Russia Today website reported.
“We hope that the sixth cycle of the peace dialogue table between the delegations of the Government of Colombia and the ELN, which began today in Havana, will promote new advances on the path of the brother Colombian people towards peace, which Cuba will continue to support,” said Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in his account on the social network X.
On the side of the ELN, his delegation reported from the Cuban capital that the expectation is to “move forward and get closer to the transformations that Colombia needs”, so that “the changes that the country requires are realized, the only possibility of building peace.”
For his part, Senator Iván Cepeda, a member of the Executive's peace delegation, said quoted by the local newspaper El Tiempo that the goal, in addition to renewing the ceasefire, is “to ensure that its extension implies a fulfillment of very serious commitments to suspend kidnapping and advance social and citizen participation.”
This was the longest ceasefire signed between the two sides. It began last August 3rd and ends on January 29th.
Mazo News Team