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NewsWar and peace

Colombia marks two-year anniversary of peace talks announcement

by Christoffer Frendesen August 28, 2014

President Juan Manuel Santos announced peace talks between FARC and the Colombian government exactly two years ago on Wednesday.

Rumors had been circulating for days before Santos’ announcement on national television that the government was going to engage in peace talks with the country’s larges guerrilla group FARC, according to a press release by Reconciliacion Colombia.

The peace negotiations have led to agreements on areas such as agriculture development, political participation, and illicit drugs, and the delegates are now discussing victims reparation, the forth of six topics to be debated before a peace deal is signed.

Colombia’s government hopes to seal the peace deal in 2015. One of FARC’s negotiators Jesus Emilio Carvajalino, alias “Andres Paris,”told French news agency AFP on Tuesday that if a peace treaty is not agreed upon in six to seven months, the negotiations would lose “steam” and Colombians will loose faith. Paris also stated that the process of reaching peace is going to be settled before FARC receives political guarantees.

MORE: FARC must be recognized as a political party before disarmament: FARC negotiator

A July opinion poll revealed that Colombians were becoming increasingly skeptical toward the peace process ending in an agreement, and that they questioned both the FARC’s desire for peace and the president’s approach to the negotiations.

MORE: Colombians losing faith in peace process: poll

When Reconciliacion Colombia asked nine journalists and researchers to weigh in on “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of the peace talks, the majority criticized the lack of ceasefire, lamenting negotiations that take place in the middle of ongoing warfare.

Sources

  • FARC negotiator says disarming will be ‘long process (AFP)
  • The good, the bad and the ugly of the peace process, two years after its announcement (Reconciliation Colombia)
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