Juan Manuel Santos warned that “this comprehensive peace will not cast a shadow over the implementation of the agreement with the FARC”.

On November 24, 2016, at Teatro Colon in Bogotá, Colombia, the government of former President Juan Manuel Santos, and former guerrilla of the FARC Sign the document that cemented the final peace agreement, that were negotiated and prepared in Cuba.

Today, we celebrate the six-year anniversary of the signing final peace agreementamid the government of President Gustavo Petro, which has been marked by its interest in consolidating comprehensive peace in Colombia with the various armed groups and in resuming talks again with the National Liberation Army (ELN).

As part of the commemoration of the former president in Cartagena Juan Manuel Santos He demanded that the Colombian president not overshadow the agreement signed with the so-called comprehensive peace.

“President Petro told us that complete peace will not overshadow the implementation of the agreement with FARC, because the points of implementation of the agreement with FARC are the best development plan and the best government plan that any president can have at this moment; you don’t have to make constitutional reforms or legal reforms because it is law Indeed, it is simply the will and the resources.”

Santos also sent a letter to Congress of the Republic To prioritize the implementation of the final peace agreement. He added, “The implementation of the agreements requires resources and political will, but it also requires controlling the state’s tools and instruments.”

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In his letter, he also sent a letter to Roy Barreras, Today the President of the Senate and a key man in the Santos government to reach an agreement with the FARC. “Roy, you have a very important mandate, development and implementation plan for the peace process.”

In turn, Rui Barreras assured that under complete peace, there would be no JEP for drug traffickers, Congressman said Historical charter.

“It is not that the drug turns himself in and tells his accomplices to escape over the phone, but that it is the collective surrender of the organization and not the recycling of capos and that requires an intelligence apparatus and an unbuilt base; the law of submission to justice does not exist, we have just approved Law 418 that allows dialogue But it does not allow anything to be submitted because the benefits that will be provided must be written in a new law that must be submitted in February.” .

Director of the National Agency for State Legal Defense, Martha Lucia Zamora He emphasized that, thanks to the final peace agreement, the Colombian state had saved about six billion pesos in lawsuits and litigation on issues related to the armed conflict.

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According to the data, in cases of civilian casualties due to terrorist acts, a 90.6% decrease in the number of accepted operations and 93% in the value of claims was observed between the year of signing the peace agreement and on September 30, 2022.

He also participated in the commemoration ceremony Mauricio Catesformer Secretary General L Truth Commissionwho asserted that after peace agreements, not only litigation or compensation processes should be counted, But lives were also saved.

One of the benefits of peace agreements is saving lives. We live in a situation where Colombian society was never aware of the struggle it witnessed with extortion and kidnapping. “We don’t put ourselves in each other’s shoes,” Katz said.

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