Former President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday published a number of alleged FARC demands to “de-escalate the conflict” that include FARC control over certain areas and an end of aerial bombardments of guerrilla units and camps.
Uribe, who previously published classified information from within the peace talks, said the eight FARC demands he published on Twitter were from rebel negotiation leader “Ivan Marquez.”
According to the president, he checked the veracity of the eight demands that “have been circulating” after the publication of these demands by Uribe-loyal journalist William Calderon.
The FARC proposals for the ‘de-escalation of the conflict’ according to Uribe
In a response, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon did not confirm the veracity of the demands, but stressed that negotiations with the guerrillas are under the authority of President Juan Manuel Santos and government chief negotiator Humberto de la Calle.
The minister did say that the definition of the FARC as a terrorist group obeys linguistics. “He who does terrorism is a terrorist,” Pinzon said.
Sub delegations of the FARC and the military command have been negotiating the end of conflict for weeks while the main delegations have been negotiating victims.
The two delegations began negotiating an end to the country’s 50-year-long armed conflict since November 2012 and have since agreed on rural reform, drug trafficking and political participation. If the delegates reach agreement on victims and the end of conflict, the FARC’s war against the government formally comes to an end.