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An article from the Senate of the Republic of Colombia
This week, the Senate Plenary formally consolidated the Legal Commission for Peace. This comes after several years of efforts to ensure that this commission became part of the legal commissions that exist in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
With Law 2405 of 2024, the Legal Commission for Peace and Post-Conflict was formally created.
As a member and president of the Commission, Senator Iván Cepeda, from the Coalition of the Historic Pact, explained, “It is a decision that has advantages, it has the possibility that the decisions that are taken, have greater binding force in Congress, different from the decisions of before.”
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This Legal Peace Commission has a fundamental role in supporting the mechanisms of implementation of the peace agreements, as well as the realization of actions of a humanitarian nature, for the preservation and maintenance of peace.
In this way, studies and analyses of the social reality of the country can also be carried out, which contribute to promoting actions within the framework of the Culture of Peace, as well as the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
The commission will be composed of eleven senators from the following political parties: Iván Cepeda and Aida Quilcué (Historical Pact), Liliana Benavides and Germán Blanco (Conservative Party), Fabio Amín (Liberal Party), Angelica Lozano (Green Party), Paloma Valencia (Democratic Center Party), David Luna (Radical Change Party), Norma Hurtado (U Party), Lorena Ríos Cuellar (MIRA-Colombia Justa Libres Party), Sandra Ramírez, Omar Restrepo, Pablo Catatumbo, Imelda Daza Cotes and Julian Gallo (Comunes Party).
The measure received the endorsement in the Plenary of 60 congressmen who agree on the construction of a peace policy that will contribute to the cessation of conflict by armed groups outside the law that persist in the national territory.
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