President Santos opens National Peace Council to speed up peace talks
President Santos opens National Peace Council to speed up peace talks
May 28, 2014 posted by Oliver Sheldon
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared the opening of the National Peace Council on Wednesday, inviting civil society to make proposals for the ongoing peace process in Havana, Cuba between the state and guerrilla group the FARC.
President Santos installed the National Peace Council on Wednesday to ensure the participation of civil society in the process that seeks the termination of a conflict that has lasted for five decades, according to an official statement on the president’s website.
The inauguration of the Peace Council took place at the Center for Historical Memory in Bogota and was attended by some 300 guests.
Referring to the ongoing peace talks between the state and the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group, Santos declared, “never before, in the half-century history of our armed internal conflict, have we had such a real opportunity, so concrete, to finish this conflict through dialogue.”
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