ELN says he will remain at the negotiating table with the Duque government

The chief peace negotiator of the National Liberation Army (ELN), Pablo Beltrán, badured today that the guerrillas will remain at the negotiating table in Havana with the government of the president elected of Colombia, Iván Duque. "There can be strong discussions and very distant positions but the instruction is to keep us at the table of dialogue", Beltrán said in an interview with the chain of the capital

. he badured that in order to dialogue with the ELN there should be a suspension of all "criminal activities" and "a prior concentration with international supervision" by this guerrilla.

In this sense, Beltrán said that uribismo is very given to the "Ultimatum" and "threats", but notes that there are "some rules of the game, an agenda, pacts that have were concluded with the state and we do not change the rules in the middle of the game "

" We as ELN have made pacts with a Head of State (Juan Manuel Santos) and it is said in theory that peace is a state policy, so everyone can not change everything at will, they have been tough in the statements " the chief negotiator of the guerrillas added.

In this sense he invited the new government to "to maintain the agreements, to fulfill the agreements" "to advance in a political solution to the conflict."

Dialogues with ELN began in February 2017 in Quito but were moved to Cuba last May after Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno shelved his country from negotiations alleging that this guerrillas maintain terrorist actions.

Havana also hosted for nearly four years the talks between the Colombian government and the FARC which resulted in the signing of a By the way, Beltrán reiterated that the ELN was not the author of a mbadacre in the municipality of Algeria, in the department of Cauca (south-west), which caused seven deaths

" What they tell us is that the entire community living in this region excludes that ELN is the author and also knows the presence of several armed actors and the presence of patrols. the army and police because it is a highly militarized area " he concluded.EFE