The Brazilian Foreign Ministry appointed Ambassador Glivania María de Oliveira to head the delegation that accompanies the peace talks between Colombia and the ELN. She assures that in this way she resumes the role that she had before the negotiations stopped.
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed on Wednesday, February 14, Ambassador Glivania María de Oliveira, who currently chairs the Rio Branco Institute, the diplomatic career school in the Amazonian nation, to lead the country’s representative delegation in the dialogues of peace between the Government of Colombia and the ELN that began its second phase in Mexico.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry indicated in a statement that De Oliveira has extensive experience in international peace and security issues. In this way, the commitment accepted by the last february 6 following Colombia’s invitation to participate in the negotiations.
“With the designation, Brazil joins Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Norway and Venezuela as a guarantor country of the Peace Talks and thus resumes the role it had played until the interruption of the negotiations, in January 2019, in favor of the construction of peace in Colombia, a crucial element for the stability of the region,” the statement said.
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On Monday February 13ththe ELN and the Government of Colombia began the second phase of the peace talks in Mexico City, with a view to reaching a bilateral ceasefire in this new cycle.
“We are here with the impulse that Colombian President Gustavo Petro has given to peace as a State policy,” said Otty Patiño, head of the Colombian Government delegation, at the inauguration of the dialogue table at the Inter-American Conference. Social Security (CISS) of Mexico City.
On January 21, an extraordinary meeting concluded in Caracas, Venezuela after the tension generated due to the announcement of December 31, 2022 about an eventual ceasefire made by Colombian President Gustavo Petro; but both parties considered the crisis over.
With information from Swiss Info
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