After the presentation and signing of the partial agreements between the Colombian government and the guerrillas as a result of the peace negotiations, Colombian President Gustavo Petro met with his Cuban counterpart at the Palace of the Revolution.
Díaz-Canel spoke about Petro’s contribution to peace. Upon assuming the presidency he —he said— “he revitalized the path towards negotiations with the ELN, interrupted by the previous government, and to peace in Colombia”.
The Cuban president thanked the visitor because when he reached the executive branch he rejected the inclusion of Cuba in the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
Petro and Antonio García will preside over the closing of the third cycle of peace talks
Petro, he said, “defended Cuba’s principled position of respecting the agreements it assumed as guarantor of the dialogue process.”
“With that position,” he stressed, “you left without arguments those who used Cuba’s respect for those commitments to attack it.”
The meeting was attended by the Colombian Foreign Minister, Álvaro Leyva Durán; José Otty Patiño, head of the Colombian government delegation in the peace talks; and Danilo Rueda, High Commissioner for Peace.
On the Cuban side, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; Vice Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal Ferreriro, and the Cuban Ambassador to Colombia, Javier Caamaño Cairo.
