President Gustavo Petro said, at the end of a Unified Command Post (PMU) for Life, held in Ituango (Antioquia), that “A multilateral ceasefire to enter into a specific negotiation process would be more viable if we have these (regional) dialogues going.”
For this reason, he added that “This is an invitation that I make to local, departmental and municipal authorities to encourage citizen discussion about what region they want, what territory they want.”
In this sense, Petro told the authorities, social leaders and the citizens of Ituango, gathered in the PMU, that “All the groups that have an illegal presence in the territory have sent letters to the Government saying that they want peace.”
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However, he warned that these communications “are words, papers, they express a climate, an atmosphere of possibilities for dialogue and negotiation. But from words you have to move on to actions, you have to start dialogues with the negotiators you designate”.
In this regard, the president explained that these negotiations “will deal, in some cases, with political issuesbut in other situations they will revolve around legal aspects, with the aim of reaching a possible acceptance of justice”.
Clarified that “the actions imply that there must be legitimate negotiators of these groups to speak with the State”.
And these actions, he emphasized, could start “with a multilateral cessation of hostilities, a ceasefire that I propose to these groups throughout the country.”
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Peace Commission in Ituango
To Pedro Nel Ospina Educational Institution, in the municipality of Ituangothe president of the Peace Commission, Iván Cepeda, arrived to reiterate the tasks they have as legislators.
“The purpose is to seek dialogue processes as soon as possible to put an end to all the expressions of violence and armed conflict that plague the country,” said Cepeda.
“We are committed to support all legal frameworks that allow illegal armed groups to benefit from dialogue to stop the war in those territories, that there be no attacks against the civilian population”, stressed the representative Alirio Uribe.
