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Colombian President to Reactivate National Peace Commission
an article by Prensa Latina
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, announced
today [March 26] he will reactivate the National
Peace Commission, created in the 90s to promote a
culture of peace and to support the dialogue between
the Government and the Guerrilla FARC-EP.
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In a meeting with governors of the central
department of Tolima, the Executive assured that
the process installed in November 2012 in Cuba is
sufficiently mature to take that step and convoke
that institution, created two decades ago under
the government of former President Ernesto Samper
(1994-1998).
Santos affirmed he has answered many petitions of
social organizations to this end. I am going to
convoke the Commission in which many
representatives of civil society participate, to
use that institution and promote a culture of
peace, he reiterated.
After thanking the permanent support of governors
to the talks, the President announced the
resignation of Minister for the Social Dialogue,
Luis Eduardo Garzon, who besides participating in
his campaign for reelection, will play a
fundamental role in the coordination of the
National Peace Commission.
The peace process installed a little over a year
ago, focuses discussión on a six-point agenda from
which there are already partial agreements on the
topic of agrarian development on which there are
already partial comprehensive agrarian development
and political participation.
At present, the parts in dialogue approach the issue
of solution to the problem of illicit drugs.
(Click here for a Spanish version of this article)
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