The Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) will meet in Venezuela in November to unblock the peace table, both delegations will meet five months after the last meeting, reports the local Colombian press.
According to what has emerged, the meeting would take place between November 1 and 7. It is worth remembering that negotiations with this guerrilla have been suspended since last September – after more than six months of freezing the table – in response to the terrorist attack against the military base in Puerto Jordán, Arauca, which left three uniformed soldiers dead and more than 25 injured.
According to informed sources, the meeting of both delegations – which have not met since last May, when the historic agreement on the first point of the dialogue agenda was signed – would take place the first week of November with a view to unblocking the peace process since The seventh cycle of dialogues will be resumed before the end of the year.
“From the ELN Dialogues delegation, we salute you and hope that your efforts for a political solution to the conflict progress positively. In consultation with the guarantor of Venezuela, it confirmed its willingness to host an Extraordinary Meeting of the two Dialogue Delegations, arriving in Caracas on Friday the First of November and leaving there on November 7,” says the letter sent by Pablo Beltrán. , head of the ELN delegation, to his counterpart Vera Grabe, on Monday, October 21.
On October 9, the ELN delegation published a letter in which it said that it was willing to have a meeting with its Government counterpart to “examine” the crisis of that process. “The ELN is preparing to hold a meeting with the Government Dialogue Delegation to examine the crisis in which the process finds itself, with the presence of the guarantor countries and permanent companions,” the document said.
