Colombia: President Petro announces a first agreement with the ELN guerrillas on the return of indigenous refugees

Published on : 04/12/2022 – 05:04

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Saturday the conclusion of an agreement between his government and the ELN on the return of indigenous refugees displaced in the west of the country, the first since the opening of peace negotiations between Bogota and this guerrilla. .

“The first point of agreement that we reached with the ELN, barely a week after the start of negotiations, consists in allowing the people displaced by this organization to return” to their lands, said the left-wing president during a meeting. an official act in Dabeiba (north-west). He did not specify the date of the return of these communities.