Iván Duque met Rodrigo Londoño, ‘Tymoshenko’

The President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque, confirmed, on the night of Friday, March 12, that in fact, he had a friendly meeting with the leader of the Party of Commons, Rodrigo Londoño, ‘Tymoshenko’. The data was released while the President reported on the progress of the “Peace with Legality” policy.

“Exactly two days ago we had a very important meeting which was called by the United Nations Observer Office in our country. The I was accompanied by the High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos, the Advisor for Stabilization, Dr Emilio Archiva and the Chief of Staff of the House of Nariño, María Paula Correa and we also met leaders of the Communes Party and people who are working on the reincorporation process ”.

Although the president never referred to the extinct FARC leaders he met at the event, Noticias Caracol reported that It would be the leader of this party, Rodrigo Londoño, “Tymoshenko” and Pastor Alape. This is the third time Duque has met Londoño.

According to what was commented by the president during the broadcast this Friday of the program “Prevention and Action”, the meeting took place on the occasion of “to accelerate and show progress in titration fronts, in PDET work, also speak in a very particular way of all the interventions that are made to bring contract farming to different regions of the country and also of the emphasis placed on development plans with a territorial approach ”.

In addition, the issue of the protection of ex-combatants who are currently making progress in their reintegration process into society was addressed. The latter, taking into account that according to the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), So far, in 2021, there has been the murder of 10 signatories of the final peace agreement between the Colombian state and the extinct Farc. The figure has risen to 259 since the conclusion of this treaty in 2016.

On this issue, and in response to the call for attention by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, JEP, High Councilor Archila stressed last week that “it is about protecting the ex-combatants who have joined the peace process. ., good the enemies are the Clan del Golfo, ELN which produces 80 percent of ex-combatant deathsNoting that the national government has implemented at least 50 measures to this end.

“This policy of peace with legality which has the support and accompaniment of the United Nations and other international cooperation agencies, we want to deepen it and that is why these meetings which were carried out periodically in certain places such as the ETCR (Territorial Training and Reincorporation Areas) and that they were also taken to the territory are part of a reactivation program, ”said Duque.

According to Caracol Radio, the meeting would have taken place at the home of Carlos Ruiz Massieu, head of the peace mission in Colombia of the said organization; The latter was accompanied by Raúl Rosende, head of the verification of the mission carried out by the same in the country.

Through a video message posted on his Twitter account, ‘Tymoshenko’ said: “We thank the United Nations for facilitating this meeting with President Duque, a cordial, respectful and very human meeting, It allowed us to express the concerns of the signatories of the peace agreement between the Colombian State and the Farc-EP and at the same time project actions. depending on the implementation of the agreement ”.

With this message, what was reported by the Colombian station is partly confirmed, according to which other issues were discussed on each group’s point of view on the implementation of the peace agreement, and what to expect in the coming months about it. For this, a roadmap was established with the objectives to be achieved during the year that Duque left at the House of Nariño and an agreement was made to work together on the outstanding points.

“This kind of productive and constructive dialogues, which are also necessary In the midst of the country’s needs to confront criminal organizations that attack social leaders and attack people being reincorporated, It will continue to be part of our daily life as a government, because we want legal peace to reach all territories, ”concluded Duque.

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