From Caracas, Venezuela, the delegations of the national government and the ELN conclude an extraordinary meeting with the signing of the first point of the peace agreements, which includes the participation of civil society in the process that is being carried out.
The announcement was made on the afternoon of this Saturday, May 25, through a press conference given by the peace delegations of the Government of President Gustavo Petro and the guerrilla group, from Venezuela, where the importance of participation was defined. of the society.
The head of the national government delegation at the negotiating table, Vera Grabe, assured during her speech that the focus has always been on peace and agreement, which is why today they are presenting a document that contains objectives, the nature of participation and who participates, among others.
The delegations did not go into detail about the documents that were signed this Saturday, but in the words of the delegate of the national Government, the axes under which it is governed focus on economy, politics, environment, education and culture.
Grabe pointed out that there are thousands of organizations, thousands of people and thousands of communities that will be involved at this point, so “this week we have done a very judicious job of examining and we made a decision and we think it is responsible for the people. ”.
The delegate of the Colombian Government highlighted in the middle of her intervention that never before had peace talks with this armed group gone this far, despite the fact that some ceasefires were reached, but not an agreement on direct points of the outlined agenda. .
“It is the possibility for society to participate in the construction of peace. It is an agreement on how to participate to execute the transformations with the people, we are here for peace and with the Colombian people,” Grabe said at the press conference.
“No one said that so many years of violence in our country was going to be easy, that it was going to be full of obstacles, adversities, difficulties, objections, but that does not diminish its value and, on the contrary, it calls us to perseverance, to persistence, patience and understanding the complexity of the problem we are facing in Colombia,” he noted.
