The National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla and the Colombian Government announced in a joint statement that both parties will resume the dialogue that they had suspended last week and confirmed that the seventh cycle will take place from April 8 to 22, in Venezuela.
Both delegations put an end to the freeze that the ELN announced on February 20, after reporting that its counterpart committed “actions that violate what was agreed at the Talks Table” that they have been carrying out for 15 months.
This announcement came after a meeting held in Havana – the place where the sixth cycle of dialogue took place, which culminated on February 6 with a semi-annual extension of the ceasefire and a temporary suspension of guerrilla kidnappings – on February 24. to February 26.
“We analyzed the progress in the agreements and the problems faced by the Peace Dialogue Table, against which each party has made commitments for the proper development of the peace process,” they stated in the text.
Last week, the armed group had assured that the peace talks with the Government were in a “crisis” and justified its freezing, ensuring that the State “through the Peace Commissioner, the Armed Forces and the Police has been carrying out violating actions.” to what was agreed.”
“Having agreed on a national process for the participation of society, it now sets up a regional dialogue in Nariño outside of said national process and ignoring the ELN Delegation and the Table where the international community participates as Guarantors, as well as the UN and the Colombian Episcopal Conference,” he noted at the time.
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