Colombia, govt. delegates show their position in the dialogues with NLA
*Govt. assured the objectives is to seek ways to resume the dialogue
*Analysts consider positive that the NLA maintains unilateral ceasefire
*Analysts consider positive that the NLA maintains unilateral ceasefire
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00:00And in other news, a delegate of the government of Colombia for the dialogue table with the
00:04National Liberation Army showed their position regarding the freezing of the process.
00:09Our colleague Hernan Tobar has the details.
00:12Let's see.
00:15The Colombian government made public the confidential proposal it made to the National Liberation
00:20Army days ago, aimed at paving the way to unfreeze the dialogue table, which has been
00:25paralyzed since the end of May.
00:29There is no problem with making the so-called confidential proposal public.
00:34It was proposed to them to make viable the proposal on economic reform that was agreed
00:39with the NLA, which was signed as the first point of agreement, with the country's business
00:44community and the social movement of Colombia to discuss the mechanisms for its implementation.
00:50It seems that they are not interested in the subject.
00:54This provoked the reaction of the opposition sectors in the country which criticized this
00:58proposal.
00:59On the other hand, the members of the dialogue table on the part of the government assured
01:03that the objective is to look for ways to resume the dialogue.
01:09To be able to generate a space in which the social movements, the government and the National
01:16Liberation Army, along with the business community, are present, what is the purpose?
01:22To discuss the transformations contained in an agreement that I invite you to read as
01:28topics for dialogue, I ask you to read the axis of the economic model contained in agreement
01:35number 28.
01:37Changes can be introduced in this model if there is an agreement in which the businessmen
01:43are willing, the government is willing and the social movement is willing.
01:48Obviously, this possibility can be opened.
01:53The head of the government delegation for the dialogues reiterated her willingness to
01:56engage in conversations.
02:01The NLA has the possibility and the responsibility now to say how we continue, that is, we always
02:08have the disposition.
02:10At no time, and we are not going to do it, we have a clear conduct that we do not break
02:15the dialogues.
02:17We consider that the only valid mechanism to move forward with a peaceful process that
02:21is a table, a table of dialogues.
02:28The NLA assures that the government has failed to comply with the agreements, among them
02:33the demand to be removed from the list of organized armed groups, as well as the collusion
02:38between some military and paramilitary groups in several regions.
02:42Analysts expressed their concern about this scenario, but consider it positive that the
02:47NLA maintains the unilateral ceasefire.
02:50We applaud, of course, the announcement by the National Liberation Army to maintain the
02:58ceasefire unilaterally.
03:01We are very concerned that at a given moment the talks have been truncated again, and that
03:06once again the talks are entering a liturgy, and perhaps also because it is not very conducive
03:14to a process of trust that at a given moment there are secret talks behind the nation's
03:19back, as it is said to have been held some day with the National Liberation Army.
03:26A prompt response is expected from the National Liberation Army to restart the dialogue process.