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The delegations of the ELN, and of the political party Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común, FARC, affirm, from Ciudad Alfaro, Montecristi, Ecuador, that no difficulty, no matter how great, will make us falter in the conquest of peace, built on the foundations of social equity, sovereignty, truth and democracy.
To date, we have met in Montecristi, Ecuador, the birthplace of the Eloy Alfaro, the delegations of the National Liberation Army, ELN, and the political party Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común, FARC, in order to evaluate the development of the processes of peace that are being advanced with the National Government.
After deliberating for two days, we allowed ourselves to manifest the following:
1- We express our firm decision to arrive at the complete peace and the changes and transformations that the majority of the Colombians and Colombians yearn for, to realize the joint defense of the Process of Peace and to explore common mechanisms so that the Agreement subscribed between the Government and the FARC-EP, advance the agenda of talks agreed between the Government and ELN, as well as harmonize the two processes. To this end, we have decided to create a joint mechanism between the two forces, the results of which will inform the government, the country and the international community.
2 - In acknowledging the advances made in recent years in the political solution, we also express our rejection of the persecution, manifested in the increasing number of murders and imprisonments of social leaders, human rights defenders and the murder of thirty FARC ex-combatants. Acts that mostly remain in impunity in time that the Attorney General of the Nation insists in the wrong way in not finding any connection in them.
We call on organizations of victims, human rights defenders, and democratic and alternative sectors to the organization, denunciation, resistance, mobilization, defense of life, territory, guarantees and Human Rights of the Colombians
3-We reiterate that paramilitarism is the greatest threat to Colombia's peace, society and democracy. For this reason, it is necessary to take effective and immediate measures for the definitive dismantling of paramilitary operations and organizations and their support networks.
4-The truth that will be known to achieve Peace, will present the weaknesses of a system that requires rapid transformation and a commitment Never Again.
5 - The solution to the complex problem of illicit crops can no longer be an exclusively repressive treatment, of harmful results such as those that have been presented in Tumaco and which threatens to spread to other regions; to fulfill commitments made with the United States. It is necessary to act wisely, with sovereignty and that the State fulfill the commitments made with the communities, implement substitution Plans, social investment programs, transparency in the management of resources, as well as the formalization of land ownership and strengthening of coexistence.
6-We to present our concerns about unbridled corruption that has invaded the social structure of the country and generally public and private institutions of the Nation: the courts, Congress, the executive branch, prosecutors, state agencies level regional, as well as public and private companies.
The scandalous criminal behavior of personalities embedded at the highest level of the public function and the private sector threatens the possibility of peace and the development of a real democracy to which we aspire.
We consider it necessary to design policies and concerted actions to put an end to this alarming situation of widespread corruption.
7-This exceptional, historic moment demands the most plural alliance of the sectors that defend peace and transformations at the political and social levels.
We call for the implementation of the Havana Accords and for the development of the participation agreed upon in the Mesa de Quito, to strengthen the integral implementation of the social and citizen participation in development of the first point of the agenda agreed between the Government and the ELN.
For the good of Colombia, we affirm from the Alfaro City, Montecristi, Ecuador, that no difficulty - no matter how great - will make us falter in the conquest of peace, built on the foundations of social equity, sovereignty, truth and democracy, as the Pope recalled in his recent visit when he told the country: "Inequity is the root of social ills."
ELN and FARC delegations.
Montecristi, October 23, 2017.
http://www.farc-ep.co/comunicado/declar ... risti.html
Google Translator
Do I hear whistling past the graveyard?