He representative of the Alirio Uribe Historical Pactand Germán Blanco, senator of the Conservative Party, They spoke at the microphones of La W about the statements by Otty Patiño after the death of ‘Hermes Guerrero’.
First of all, Representative Uribe assured that “Peace deserves a sincere and fraternal dialogue between the delegations that are to see if it is possible to make peace or not. “I don’t think that’s something strange, it’s normal at a negotiating table, surely they will coexist like when the initial negotiations with the FARC took place.”
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He added that if negotiations are to take place, it is “normal” for negotiators to talk even if there is no ceasefire or formal peace process.The President has considered it appropriate to initiate a dialogue with this group.”
Along the same lines, the congressman highlighted that “there is no ceasefire with the Second Marquetalia and obviously the Government has maintained operations against all groups (…) What worries the commissioner is that the death of this man has occurred as a kind of sabotage to the table.”
Specifying that “I feel that the apologies from the negotiating table have to do with the contacts they had previously had that were secret between commanders and members of the peace commission and If these peace negotiation contacts are used to dismiss commanders, that could torpedo the negotiation.I presume there must be something to that.”
Finally, he made it clear that “I believe that there are sectors, obviously the Military Headquarters, the Minister of Defense, that are fully supporting peace, but “There may be other sectors within the public force that want to sabotage peace.”
In turn, Senator Blanco pointed out that “there is not a Colombian who does not want peace, but love does not take away knowledge, we cannot go to extremes,Here we should not go out to applaud or generate condolences for those who are not contributing to peace, when they continue to sacrifice Colombians throughout the territory, when they extort and kidnap, that is, there must be real wills. They have broken off the talks.”
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Some sectors within the public force want to sabotage peace: Alirio Uribe
