The government delegation in the dialogues with the ELN https://twitter.com/DelegacionGob/status/1784227015643504896?t=nRyUhFORF2U5GJ5uP5erXg&s=19 a statement following the interview given to La Silla Vacía by Gabriel Yepes, known as “HH” or “Samuel”.
Who is it? Yepes is the commander of the Southern Comuneros Front, an ELN structure that began a territorial peace process with the government and governorate of Nariño. This dialogue is rejected by the Central Command (Coce) and has put the national dialogue table in crisis.
What did you say in the interview? Yepes said that there was no break on this front with the ELN, that they entered into a parallel dialogue process because they did not feel represented at the national table and that their request is that it be transformed into a dialogue table. “Our peacebuilding is to make a transition to political life and for all those things to happen, there has to be a table,” he said.
What did the delegation respond? That the “national government cannot carry out a negotiation process in two instances with the same organization.” That is, in the current national dialogue table with the ELN, and another in a process with that guerrilla front. “Such a circumstance is legally and politically unfeasible,” the statement says.
What do they ask the president? The government delegation asked Petro to make “the decision that he considers”: between continuing the dialogue table with the ELN, or advancing a table with the Nariño structure or determining that this structure was no longer part of the ELN with which it met. negotiates at the national level, “to develop an autonomous process with it,” they say.
This is the full statement:
And see here the interview that La Silla did with Yepes.
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