FARC resumes talks on implementation of agreement with government

The government of Colombia and the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) party resumed talks on the implementation of the peace agreement.

The  talks had been suspended around a month ago. FARC’s Monitoring, Promotion, and Verification Commission for the Implementation of the Peace Accords (CSIVI) sent a letter to Presidential Adviser on Post-Conflict Stabilization and Consolidation Emilio Archila, establishing Peace Agreement implementation basis.

FARC- CSIVI delegates Rodrigo Granda, Jairo Estrada and Ronald Rojas, signed the letter.

 “We propose to consult on 25 June and that the technical secretariat prepares a meeting’s agenda for the following two months, to be settled at our next reunion,” the CSVI stated.

The CSVI stressed that Arcila’s proposal of a meeting on May 28 was not coherent with negotiations’ requirements due to governing representatives’ majority absence.

Bilateral conversations ended on 14 May, after High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia Miguel Ceballos commended Cuba’s inclusion in terrorism friendly nations’ list. 

On 10 June the FARC party denounced former guerrilla and social leader’s extermination to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet.

Since the signing of the Peace Agreement on 24 November 2016, at least 220 social leaders and former guerrilla fighters have been assassinated in Colombia.