In this process there will be room “even those who escape proceedings due to political reasons and who have been introduced to that continental disgrace that is drug trafficking,” the foreign minister added.
The total peace sought by President Gustavo Petro includes negotiations with the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army, ELN, which should begin after the first week of November, and with various armed gangs, including FARC dissidents and drug traffickers.
Leyva recalled that since 1991, when Colombia enacted the current Constitution, “we have continued the search for peace”, and assured that “it is not just a question of total political peace, but of a negotiation of justice so that there is a reception of these forces in such a way that total peace is achieved, even beyond our borders, because we understand that appeasement must be continental”.
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This, he continued, explains the approach that Colombia and Venezuela have had through their president, Nicolás Maduro, to open the borders, after years of freezing diplomatic relations and the closure of the common border.
Finally, the foreign minister stressed that “the great war today is the one that commits everyone because we are destroying the planet” and, despite the sum of views that come together in the OAS, he highlighted this aspect because “our commitment as Colombians for total peace goes further, and is what leads me to invite you to march towards total peace in the world to save the planet”.
