It will be in force until June 30 and “will be communicated to Interpol and other authorities for the purposes of immediate and strict compliance.”
The Colombian Attorney General’s Office suspended this Friday the arrest warrants against five members of the Central General Staff, the main dissidence of the Farc-EP, after the request of President Gustavo Petro to have the conditions that allow the start of peace talks.
Through an official statement, the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, announced the suspension of “each and every one” of the arrest warrants against the people that Petro recognized last March as representatives with political status.
The provision protects Luis Carlos Pinilla Cortez, Renzo Alirio Martínez, Robinson de Jesús González, Ramiro Pinzón Novoa and Walter Freddy Ruiz Montaño, who will integrate the Oversight, Monitoring and Verification Mechanism.
A decision that will be in force until June 30 and “will be communicated to Interpol and other authorities for the purpose of immediate and strict compliance.”
Although Barbosa Delgado expressed that once again he “facilitates peace” in Colombia, in relation to the recent suspension of arrest warrants against ELN leaders, he rejected the establishment of peace processes “and not submission to justice with drug traffickers in the Colombian territory.
“We are friends of peace, but we are not of drug trafficking,” added the Attorney General of the Nation.
#ATTENTION | official communiqué of the #Prosecutor’s Office General of the Nation. pic.twitter.com/svWNo3p82E
– Colombian Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaCol) March 24, 2023
Heading for “total peace”
The request of the Colombian head of state dates from the previous March 8, when resolution number 038 was issued that granted political status to this group of people, in an effort to advance the comprehensive policy of “total peace” with criminal groups.
“The national government is making a rapprochement with the armed group organized outside the law, calling itself the Central General Staff, to advance a negotiation or dialogue of a political nature, in order to agree on a peace agreement,” Petro wrote in a letter sent to Barbosa Delgado.
A text in which he was “convinced that the search for peace is not limited to the elimination of direct violence, but that advanced and above all civilized forms are required that allow agreeing on a negotiated solution to the internal armed conflict, which during many decades has cruelly devastated the population”.
In this sense, on March 13, Petro announced the beginning of a second peace process between the Executive and the Central General Staff, for which there is still no date.
The implementation of the Peace Agreement and the security of the signatories is a priority for our government. The first commitment of the cabinet is the fulfillment of the agreement, this is the government of peace. https://t.co/FVH1vDgO9S
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) March 24, 2023
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