Colombian government’s agrarian deal with FARC ‘unacceptable’: Uribe

Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe said Monday that an undisclosed agreement on agrarian reform signed by Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC and the government on Sunday is “unacceptable.”

MORE: Colombian Government And FARC Reach Deal On Agrarian Reform

The agreement between the FARC and the government prompted the vocal ex-president to launch a barrage of criticism on Twitter.

In an eight-point series of tweets, the former president (2002-2010) said current president Juan Manuel Santos had turned his back on the country’s farmers and was leaving their fate in the hands of terrorists.

Additionally, “the narco-terrorists of the FARC” had been turned into “political interlocutors” by signing the agreement, said Uribe.

“The Santos government negotiates the future of young people in rural zones with the terrorism which has recruited and assassinated them,” the former head of state added.

The agreement between the FARC and the government was signed on Sunday. The Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, in charge of the peace negotiations, told Colombia Reports that the negotiation teams would not release the text of the signed document until further notice.

On Sunday, the chief negotiator of the rebel delegation, “Ivan Marquez,” said there were still pending issues regarding agrarian reform yet to be solved by the warring parties.

“There is a pact of confidentiality which prohibits us from speaking about details of these approaches and we have respected them, but in some moment we will speak about them,” said on Monday “Pablo Catatumbo,” the leader of the FARC’s Western Bloc and one of the more recent additions to the FARC delegation in Havana, Cuba.

The deal is the first of five that must be agreed upon to end the armed conflict between the leftist rebels and the state that has wreaked havoc in Colombia since 1964.

The negotiations began in November last year and will, according to Santos, not last for longer than a year.

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