On the eve of the end of the year, President Gustavo Petro announced that an agreement had been reached bilateral ceasefire with five guerrillas in the country. Among them was the National Liberation Army, ELN.
(Read: The step by step of the Government to evaluate a truce with armed groups).
However, this Tuesday, January 3, the guerrilla He denied having reached an agreement of this type with the Government. Through a statement issued by the Central Command, they assured that: “The ELN Dialogue Delegation has not discussed any proposal for a Bilateral Ceasefire with the Government of Gustavo Petro, therefore there is still no agreement on this matter.“.
Along with this, they clarified that they will only comply with what is discussed and agreed upon at the Dialogue Table where they participate. For this, they will not accept “as an agreement a unilateral decree of the Government”.
(See: Colombia-Venezuela border: this was the reopening of Tienditas).
They also reiterated the agreements they had reached with the Government: “In the last cycle of dialogues held in Venezuela that culminated on December 12, only what was announced regarding the institutionalization of the Table was agreed upon and adjustments to the Agenda began, which were taken to consultations, both with the President and the Central Command“.
Then in the next cycle it would have been agreed to complete the adjustment of the agenda. “Once we conclude what is planned, we are in a position to discuss the Bilateral Ceasefire proposal, to examine the terms that make an agreement possible. We understand the Government Decree as a proposal to be examined in the next cycle,” they concluded in the notice.
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