Acuerdo V Ruta para la participación social, agenda de la mesa de diálogos de paz, compromiso socioambiental, transformaciones territoriales y aspectos humanitarios, jurídicos y de seguridad.
- Country/entity
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Colombia
- Region
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Americas
- Agreement name
- Acuerdo V Ruta para la participación social, agenda de la mesa de diálogos de paz, compromiso socioambiental, transformaciones territoriales y aspectos humanitarios, jurídicos y de seguridad.
- Date
- 18 Jan 2024
- Agreement status
- Multiparty signed/agreed
- Interim arrangement
- Yes
- Agreement/conflict level
- Intrastate/intrastate conflict
- Stage
- Ceasefire/related
- Conflict nature
- Government/territory
- Peace process
- Colombia VII - Petro Peace Dialogues with FARC-EP
- Parties
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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DELEGATION:
Camilo González Posso - Coordinator, Delegation of the National Government
Gloria Quinceno Acevedo - Delegation of the National Government
Fabio Valencia Cossio - Delegation of the National Government
Feliciano Valencia Medina - Delegation of the National Government
Luz Darí Landázuri Segura - Delegation of the National Government [No signature]
Carlos Murgas Guerrero - Delegation of the National Government [No signature]
Coronel (r) Genny Calvo Olmos - Delegation of the National Government
Yesid Arteta Dávil - Delegation of the National Government
Oscar Gerardo Salazar Muñoz - Delegation of the National Government
Coronel (r) Luis Alfonso Novoa Díaz - Delegation of the National Government
Pedro Arenas - Delegation of the National Government
FARC-EP DELEGATION:
Leopoldo Durán García - Head of Delegation of the Central General Staff
José Tomás Ojeda - Delegation of the Central General Staff
Javier 33 - Delegation of the Central General Staff
Fernanda Briceño - Delegation of the Central General Staff
Robinson Caicedo Ríos - Delegation of the Central General Staff
Franco Ramírez - Delegation of the Central General Staff - Third parties
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GUARANTORS:
Armando Franchi - Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Louise Wilson - Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland
Phillip Lustenberger - Special Envoy, Swiss Confederation
Axel Støren Wedén - First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
ACCOMPANYING PERSONS:
Raúl Rosende - Delegate of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia
Roberto Menéndez - Chief Mission, MAPP-OEA
Padre Eliecer Soto Ardila - Representative Episcopal Conference of Colombia [No signature]
Humberto Martín Shikiya - Representative World Council of Churches
FARC-EP ACCOMPANYING PERSONS:
Julián Lopez - Accompanying person, Central General Staff
Leo Ramírez - Accompanying person, Central General Staff
Diego Fernández - Accompanying person, Central General Staff
Pablo García - Accompanying person, Central General Staff - Description
- The January 2024 agreement between Colombia's National Government and FARC-EP's Central General Staff extends the bilateral ceasefire until July 2024 while establishing frameworks for peace dialogues. The agreement focuses on social participation, territorial transformation, and environmental protection in FARC-EP-present regions, supported by international guarantors. This document advances Colombia's peace process by implementing concrete measures for sustainable development and addressing victims' rights in conflict-affected areas.
- Agreement document
- CO_240118_Acuerdo_V_EN (opens in new tab) | Download PDF
- Agreement document (original language)
- CO_240118_Acuerdo V (opens in new tab)
Groups
- Children/youth
- Groups→Children/youth→RhetoricalParticipationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government.
- Disabled persons
No specific mention.
- Elderly/age
No specific mention.
- Migrant workers
No specific mention.
- Racial/ethnic/national group
- Groups→Racial/ethnic/national group→RhetoricalParticipationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government....Participation in the implementation of the agreements requires respectful interlocution with communities, social sectors, territorial authorities, including ethnic ones, and public servants....Protection of the civilian population....Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights.Groups→Racial/ethnic/national group→Anti-discriminationParticipation...The Peace Dialogues Table, in the participatory processes to define immediately applicable agreements, will give priority to the evaluation of the commitments or pacts that the Colombian State has signed in the territories with the peasantry, the indigenous, afro-descendant, black, raizal, palenquero, Rrom and other social sectors.Groups→Racial/ethnic/national group→SubstantiveProtection of the civilian population....Taking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
- Religious groups
No specific mention.
- Indigenous people
- Groups→Indigenous people→RhetoricalParticipationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government....Protection of the civilian population....Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights.Groups→Indigenous people→Anti-discriminationParticipation...The Peace Dialogues Table, in the participatory processes to define immediately applicable agreements, will give priority to the evaluation of the commitments or pacts that the Colombian State has signed in the territories with the peasantry, the indigenous, afro-descendant, black, raizal, palenquero, Rrom and other social sectors.Groups→Indigenous people→SubstantiveProtection of the civilian population....Taking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
- Other groups
- Groups→Other groups→SubstantiveParticipationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government....The Peace Dialogues Table, in the participatory processes to define immediately applicable agreements, will give priority to the evaluation of the commitments or pacts that the Colombian State has signed in the territories with the peasantry, the indigenous, afro-descendant, black, raizal, palenquero, Rrom and other social sectors....Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table....Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others....Protection of the civilian population....Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights.
- Refugees/displaced persons
No specific mention.
- Social class
No specific mention.
Gender
- Women, girls and gender
- Participationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government.
- Men and boys
No specific mention.
- LGBTI
No specific mention.
- Family
No specific mention.
State definition
- Nature of state (general)
No specific mention.
- State configuration
No specific mention.
- Self determination
No specific mention.
- Referendum
No specific mention.
- State symbols
No specific mention.
- Independence/secession
No specific mention.
- Accession/unification
No specific mention.
- Border delimitation
No specific mention.
- Cross-border provision
No specific mention.
Governance
- Political institutions (new or reformed)
No specific mention.
- Elections
No specific mention.
- Electoral commission
No specific mention.
- Political parties reform
No specific mention.
- Civil society
- Participationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government.Recognise, strengthen and accompany peoples, communities and organisations in their autonomous efforts to protect the environment, biodiversity and care for their own economies....The work of social, citizen and community participation in the framework of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions shall be carried out at the national, regional and local levels, under the terms and conditions agreed in the Protocol for Social Participation and Oversight of the Population, their Communities and Organisations.The Peace Dialogues Table, in the participatory processes to define immediately applicable agreements, will give priority to the evaluation of the commitments or pacts that the Colombian State has signed in the territories with the peasantry, the indigenous, afro-descendant, black, raizal, palenquero, Rrom and other social sectors.Participation in the implementation of the agreements requires respectful interlocution with communities, social sectors, territorial authorities, including ethnic ones, and public servants.In this period of CFBTNT, progress will be made in the construction of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions and the Participation Protocol, developing initiatives for social dialogue with public servants, ethnic authorities, social organisations;...Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table.The MDP, taking into account the Agreement on the Basic Guidelines for the Elaboration of the Agenda for Dialogues and Peacebuilding, signed on 16 October 2023 in Tibú, will advance in the construction of the definitive agenda, guaranteeing the real and effective participation of the communities and inviting the society to this process of construction, as well as to its development....Territorial transformation...The contents of the agreements will be constructed with the communities....Socio-environmental commitmentGenerate, retake and recognise scenarios of participation of the different sectors of society for a socio-environmental agenda that reduces environmental affectations related to social, environmental and armed conflicts....This process will promote agreements based on respectful socio-environmental dialogue with the participation of territorial authorities, environmental public servants, ethnic peoples and other social sectors, for the benefit of the communities and in coordination with them and the MDP.The parties undertake to provide guarantees for the development of the social and community leaderships that emerge within the framework of this process.In the Agenda, special attention will be given to the socio-environmental problems of the Amazon - in its different dimensions and connectivities - as well as of other protected areas in the country, recognising and strengthening initiatives for conservation, recovery, integral sustainable development and guarantees for their peoples, communities and their own economies.Protection of the civilian population....Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights....The parties will contribute to programmes for tracing persons presumed missing, localisation and handover in coordination with the CICR, permanent accompaniers of the MDP, the territorial and national authorities, and community self-protection mechanisms....Social dialogues will be held with organisations and entities to advance in the evaluation and responses that are pertinent, related to, among other issues:...- Workers affected by the conflict, including those documented by the National Roundtable of Provisional Teachers in Post-Conflict Territories and by trade union organisations....The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...The parties are grateful for the accompaniment of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Colombia, as well as the MAPP-OEA, the Colombian Episcopal Conference and the World Council of Churches.
- Traditional/religious leaders
- Participation...Participation in the implementation of the agreements requires respectful interlocution with communities, social sectors, territorial authorities, including ethnic ones, and public servants.In this period of CFBTNT, progress will be made in the construction of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions and the Participation Protocol, developing initiatives for social dialogue with public servants, ethnic authorities, social organisations;
- Public administration
- Participation...Participation in the implementation of the agreements requires respectful interlocution with communities, social sectors, territorial authorities, including ethnic ones, and public servants.In this period of CFBTNT, progress will be made in the construction of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions and the Participation Protocol, developing initiatives for social dialogue with public servants, ethnic authorities, social organisations;...Socio-environmental commitment...This process will promote agreements based on respectful socio-environmental dialogue with the participation of territorial authorities, environmental public servants, ethnic peoples and other social sectors, for the benefit of the communities and in coordination with them and the MDP....Legal Commission and security assurances...The Office of the High Commissioner of Peace will process the requests for individual protection of the members of the delegations, facilitators and advisors, before the competent authority.
- Constitution
No specific mention.
Power sharing
- Political power sharing
- Power sharing→Political power sharing→Segmental autonomyProtection of the civilian population....State levelSub-state levelTaking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
- Territorial power sharing
- Power sharing→Territorial power sharing→OtherProtection of the civilian population....Taking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
- Economic power sharing
No specific mention.
- Military power sharing
No specific mention.
Human rights and equality
- Human rights/RoL general
- The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...3. Compliance with IHL in terms of linking members to their armed structures.The Delegation of the National Government considers it necessary to respond to the demands of the population in various regions of the country due to the impact on their freedoms and rights due to clashes between armed organisations and recommends that steps be taken for dialogue between them, in the regions or at another level, in order to alleviate the situation of various forms of violence.
- Bill of rights/similar
No specific mention.
- Treaty incorporation
- Protection of the civilian population.The MDP will follow up on the commitments already defined in the signed Agreements and Protocols and the definition of concrete plans for strict compliance with IHL and Human Rights norms....It incorporates into the MDP Agenda everything related to victims' rights in IHL, such as that which refers to all violations and their causes in the framework of social and armed conflicts that must have their place in the Peace Agreements.
- Civil and political rights
- Human rights and equality→Civil and political rights→Liberty and security of personLegal Commission and security assurancesA mixed legal commission will be formed with the accompaniment of the UN Verification Mission and MAPP-OEA, to carry out a census and propose legal, security and humanitarian recommendations on the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, as well as those who are not deprived of their liberty with a legal situation yet to be resolved.The Government Delegation will expedite steps for the evaluation of the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, and visits will be made to promote attention to urgent legal, health, overcrowding and security situations.
- Socio-economic rights
No specific mention.
Rights related issues
- Citizenship
No specific mention.
- Democracy
No specific mention.
- Detention procedures
No specific mention.
- Media and communication
No specific mention.
- Mobility/access
- The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...2. The development of actions of a humanitarian nature in relation to the prevention of armed contact, the return of civilians and/or combatants, the implementation of humanitarian corridors, amongst others.
- Protection measures
- Rights related issues→Protection measures→Protection of civiliansProtection of the civilian population....It will seek to achieve reductions in the affectations to the civilian population as a result of the social and armed conflict, in particular those that are the object of monitoring in the MDP....The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...2. The development of actions of a humanitarian nature in relation to the prevention of armed contact, the return of civilians and/or combatants, the implementation of humanitarian corridors, amongst others....The Delegation of the National Government considers it necessary to respond to the demands of the population in various regions of the country due to the impact on their freedoms and rights due to clashes between armed organisations and recommends that steps be taken for dialogue between them, in the regions or at another level, in order to alleviate the situation of various forms of violence.Rights related issues→Protection measures→Protection of groupsLegal Commission and security assurances...The Office of the High Commissioner of Peace will process the requests for individual protection of the members of the delegations, facilitators and advisors, before the competent authority.UNP and UNIPEP personnel in the performance of their duties and their instruments of protection, including the vehicles of all protected persons, will be the object of special protection and support, providing full guarantees for the development of their activities, in accordance with existing protocols and procedures.
- Other
No specific mention.
Rights institutions
- NHRI
No specific mention.
- Regional or international human rights institutions
No specific mention.
Justice sector reform
- Criminal justice and emergency law
No specific mention.
- State of emergency provisions
No specific mention.
- Judiciary and courts
No specific mention.
- Prisons and detention
- Legal Commission and security assurances...The Government Delegation will expedite steps for the evaluation of the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, and visits will be made to promote attention to urgent legal, health, overcrowding and security situations.
- Traditional Laws
No specific mention.
Socio-economic reconstruction
- Development or socio-economic reconstruction
- Socio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Socio-economic developmentTerritorial transformationAs a first step, without undermining decisions of national scope, the parties and the communities will generate the conditions for the realisation of partial agreements for immediate implementation in the areas where the FARC-EP's Central General Staff is present, prioritising the departments of Cauca, Caquetá, Arauca, Putumayo, Guaviare and Norte de Santander, to advance structural territorial transformations, with plans for comprehensive sustainable development aimed at improving the living conditions of the population in the territories....a. Actions for the recuperation of Catatumbo River Basin and social plans agreed or under construction....b. Socio-environmental plans (in consultation) in regions of Caquetá....Socio-environmental commitmentGenerate, retake and recognise scenarios of participation of the different sectors of society for a socio-environmental agenda that reduces environmental affectations related to social, environmental and armed conflicts.Carry out a dialogue process that contributes to the construction of the socio-environmental agenda for peace....This process will promote agreements based on respectful socio-environmental dialogue with the participation of territorial authorities, environmental public servants, ethnic peoples and other social sectors, for the benefit of the communities and in coordination with them and the MDP....In the Agenda, special attention will be given to the socio-environmental problems of the Amazon - in its different dimensions and connectivities - as well as of other protected areas in the country, recognising and strengthening initiatives for conservation, recovery, integral sustainable development and guarantees for their peoples, communities and their own economies.Socio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Humanitarian assistanceThe Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...2. The development of actions of a humanitarian nature in relation to the prevention of armed contact, the return of civilians and/or combatants, the implementation of humanitarian corridors, amongst others.
- National economic plan
No specific mention.
- Natural resources
No specific mention.
- International funds
No specific mention.
- Business
No specific mention.
- Taxation
- Socio-economic reconstruction→Taxation→OtherThe Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:1. Suspension of kidnappings for economic purposes
- Banks
No specific mention.
Land, property and environment
- Land reform/rights
- Land, property and environment→Land reform/rights→Land reform and managementSocio-environmental commitment...In the Agenda, special attention will be given to the socio-environmental problems of the Amazon - in its different dimensions and connectivities - as well as of other protected areas in the country, recognising and strengthening initiatives for conservation, recovery, integral sustainable development and guarantees for their peoples, communities and their own economies.Protection of the civilian population....Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights.
- Pastoralist/nomadism rights
No specific mention.
- Cultural heritage
- Land, property and environment→Cultural heritage→PromotionProtection of the civilian population....Taking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
- Environment
- Participation...Recognise, strengthen and accompany peoples, communities and organisations in their autonomous efforts to protect the environment, biodiversity and care for their own economies....Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table....Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others.Territorial transformation...Based on the experiences and social dialogues, the MDP will elaborate a Special Agreement on Territorial Transformations in the perspective of peacebuilding with social and environmental justice, taking into account, among others, its protocols and agreements....b. Socio-environmental plans (in consultation) in regions of Caquetá....Socio-environmental commitmentGenerate, retake and recognise scenarios of participation of the different sectors of society for a socio-environmental agenda that reduces environmental affectations related to social, environmental and armed conflicts.Carry out a dialogue process that contributes to the construction of the socio-environmental agenda for peace....This process will promote agreements based on respectful socio-environmental dialogue with the participation of territorial authorities, environmental public servants, ethnic peoples and other social sectors, for the benefit of the communities and in coordination with them and the MDP....In the Agenda, special attention will be given to the socio-environmental problems of the Amazon - in its different dimensions and connectivities - as well as of other protected areas in the country, recognising and strengthening initiatives for conservation, recovery, integral sustainable development and guarantees for their peoples, communities and their own economies.
- Water or riparian rights or access
- Territorial transformation...a. Actions for the recuperation of Catatumbo River Basin and social plans agreed or under construction.
Security sector
- Security Guarantees
- Participation...Effective participation requires that concerted decisions - plans, programmes and projects - have sufficient resources from the State and that their construction and execution have legal, logistical and security guarantees, taking into account the differential approach and in accordance with the protocols established in the MDP....Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table....Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others....Legal Commission and security assurances...The National Government reiterates the commitment of the National Protection Unit (UNP) and the National Police, in terms of security and protection, in recognition of the security guarantees for the development of the MDP and the MVMV of the Ceasefire.The UNP and the National Police, through UNIPEP, in the framework of harmonious collaboration between the entities, will fulfil the development of the protection functions that correspond to each entity, in accordance with the protocols already agreed, the MVMV and the MDP.The Office of the High Commissioner of Peace will process the requests for individual protection of the members of the delegations, facilitators and advisors, before the competent authority.UNP and UNIPEP personnel in the performance of their duties and their instruments of protection, including the vehicles of all protected persons, will be the object of special protection and support, providing full guarantees for the development of their activities, in accordance with existing protocols and procedures.
- Ceasefire
- Security sector→Ceasefire→Ceasefire provisionThe Peace Dialogue Table (MDP) between the Government of the Republic of Colombia, in the framework of the State policy, and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP, have agreed to extend the Bilateral and Temporary Ceasefire of National character with Territorial impact (CFBTNT) from January 16, 2024 and until July 15, 2024, which may be extended after evaluation by the parties.In the event of a decision to extend the CFBTNT, each of the parties shall issue the respective orders for its formalisation and enforcement, including its pedagogy.Security sector→Ceasefire→General commitmentsWe, the parties, commit ourselves to implement with concrete measures the agreements and protocols already signed and those to be signed.
- Police
- Legal Commission and security assurances...The National Government reiterates the commitment of the National Protection Unit (UNP) and the National Police, in terms of security and protection, in recognition of the security guarantees for the development of the MDP and the MVMV of the Ceasefire.The UNP and the National Police, through UNIPEP, in the framework of harmonious collaboration between the entities, will fulfil the development of the protection functions that correspond to each entity, in accordance with the protocols already agreed, the MVMV and the MDP....UNP and UNIPEP personnel in the performance of their duties and their instruments of protection, including the vehicles of all protected persons, will be the object of special protection and support, providing full guarantees for the development of their activities, in accordance with existing protocols and procedures.
- Armed forces
No specific mention.
- DDR
No specific mention.
- Intelligence services
No specific mention.
- Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forces
- Territorial transformationAs a first step, without undermining decisions of national scope, the parties and the communities will generate the conditions for the realisation of partial agreements for immediate implementation in the areas where the FARC-EP's Central General Staff is present, prioritising the departments of Cauca, Caquetá, Arauca, Putumayo, Guaviare and Norte de Santander, to advance structural territorial transformations, with plans for comprehensive sustainable development aimed at improving the living conditions of the population in the territories....Legal Commission and security assurancesA mixed legal commission will be formed with the accompaniment of the UN Verification Mission and MAPP-OEA, to carry out a census and propose legal, security and humanitarian recommendations on the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, as well as those who are not deprived of their liberty with a legal situation yet to be resolved.The Government Delegation will expedite steps for the evaluation of the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, and visits will be made to promote attention to urgent legal, health, overcrowding and security situations....The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:1. Suspension of kidnappings for economic purposes2. The development of actions of a humanitarian nature in relation to the prevention of armed contact, the return of civilians and/or combatants, the implementation of humanitarian corridors, amongst others.3. Compliance with IHL in terms of linking members to their armed structures.
- Withdrawal of foreign forces
No specific mention.
- Corruption
No specific mention.
- Crime/organised crime
No specific mention.
- Drugs
- Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table....Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others.
- Terrorism
No specific mention.
Transitional justice
- Transitional justice general
No specific mention.
- Amnesty/pardon
No specific mention.
- Courts
No specific mention.
- Mechanism
- Legal Commission and security assurancesA mixed legal commission will be formed with the accompaniment of the UN Verification Mission and MAPP-OEA, to carry out a census and propose legal, security and humanitarian recommendations on the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, as well as those who are not deprived of their liberty with a legal situation yet to be resolved.
- Prisoner release
- Legal Commission and security assurancesA mixed legal commission will be formed with the accompaniment of the UN Verification Mission and MAPP-OEA, to carry out a census and propose legal, security and humanitarian recommendations on the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, as well as those who are not deprived of their liberty with a legal situation yet to be resolved.
- Vetting
No specific mention.
- Victims
- Participationstrengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government....Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table....Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others....Protection of the civilian population....It incorporates into the MDP Agenda everything related to victims' rights in IHL, such as that which refers to all violations and their causes in the framework of social and armed conflicts that must have their place in the Peace Agreements.
- Missing persons
- Protection of the civilian population....The parties will contribute to programmes for tracing persons presumed missing, localisation and handover in coordination with the CICR, permanent accompaniers of the MDP, the territorial and national authorities, and community self-protection mechanisms.
- Reparations
No specific mention.
- Reconciliation
No specific mention.
Implementation
- UN signatory
- The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...The parties are grateful for the accompaniment of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Colombia, as well as the MAPP-OEA, the Colombian Episcopal Conference and the World Council of Churches....Accompanying persons:Raúl Rosende, Delegate of the Special, Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Colombia
- Other international signatory
- The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:...The parties are grateful for the accompaniment of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Colombia, as well as the MAPP-OEA, the Colombian Episcopal Conference and the World Council of Churches.They are also grateful for the continued support of all the guarantor countries:Norway, Venezuela, Switzerland and Ireland....Signed the guarantors as witness and depositaries:Armando Franchi, Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaLouise Wilson, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland...Phillip Lustenberger, Special Envoy, Swiss ConfederationAxel Støren Wedén, First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of NorwayAccompanying persons:...Roberto Menéndez, Chief Mission, Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organisation of American States (MAPP-OEA)[No signature], Padre Eliecer Soto Ardila, Representative Episcopal Conference of ColombiaHumberto Martín Shikiya, Representative World Council of Churches
- Referendum for agreement
No specific mention.
- International mission/force/similar
No specific mention.
- Enforcement mechanism
- Territorial transformation...In this period of CFBTNT, as an urgent measure, the MDP will form a commission to monitor and evaluate the agreements signed in the Inspectorate of Los Pozos, in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán, the past five (5) March 2023, as well as the other agreements that have been signed with the peasantry of Villavicencio, Altamira, and the cases of Peñas Coloradas, Puerto Torres, Unión Unión de Peñas Coloradas, Puerto Torres, Unión Peneya and La Mona.The Commission will arrange for the establishment of timetables, responsibilities and means for their fulfilment.The Follow-up Commission will involve the participation of MDP accompaniers and guarantors.
- Related cases
No specific mention.
- Source
No specific mention.
Source agreement
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
AGREEMENT V.
ROUTE FOR SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, AGENDA OF THE PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE, SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT, TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN, LEGAL AND SECURITY ASPECTS.
The Peace Dialogue Table (MDP) between the Government of the Republic of Colombia, in the framework of the State policy, and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP, have agreed to extend the Bilateral and Temporary Ceasefire of National character with Territorial impact (CFBTNT) from January 16, 2024 and until July 15, 2024, which may be extended after evaluation by the parties.
In the event of a decision to extend the CFBTNT, each of the parties shall issue the respective orders for its formalisation and enforcement, including its pedagogy.
We, the parties, commit ourselves to implement with concrete measures the agreements and protocols already signed and those to be signed.
We, the parties, have made progress in the evaluation of the agreements and protocols, including, inter alia, the following:
Participation
strengthen the direct, real and effective participation of social, peasant, indigenous, afro-descendant, women's, victims' populations, youths and vulnerable population organisations, among others, in the territories, respecting their autonomy, pluralism and self-government.
Recognise, strengthen and accompany peoples, communities and organisations in their autonomous efforts to protect the environment, biodiversity and care for their own economies.
Effective participation requires that concerted decisions - plans, programmes and projects - have sufficient resources from the State and that their construction and execution have legal, logistical and security guarantees, taking into account the differential approach and in accordance with the protocols established in the MDP.
The work of social, citizen and community participation in the framework of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions shall be carried out at the national, regional and local levels, under the terms and conditions agreed in the Protocol for Social Participation and Oversight of the Population, their Communities and Organisations.
The Peace Dialogues Table, in the participatory processes to define immediately applicable agreements, will give priority to the evaluation of the commitments or pacts that the Colombian State has signed in the territories with the peasantry, the indigenous, afro-descendant, black, raizal, palenquero, Rrom and other social sectors.
Participation in the implementation of the agreements requires respectful interlocution with communities, social sectors, territorial authorities, including ethnic ones, and public servants.
In this period of CFBTNT, progress will be made in the construction of the Special Agreement for Participation and Decisions and the Participation Protocol, developing initiatives for social dialogue with public servants, ethnic authorities, social organisations;
and supporting participation for the fulfilment of pacts.
Thematic Agenda of the Peace Dialogues Table.
The MDP, taking into account the Agreement on the Basic Guidelines for the Elaboration of the Agenda for Dialogues and Peacebuilding, signed on 16 October 2023 in Tibú, will advance in the construction of the definitive agenda, guaranteeing the real and effective participation of the communities and inviting the society to this process of construction, as well as to its development.
In accordance with this, the first themes presented by the MDP were the following:
Lands, territory, environment, security, education, dispossession, sustainable development, local power, governance models, victims of the social and armed conflict, economies now considered illicit, ethnic and peasant territorialities, guarantees for the parties during and after the agreement, among others.
Territorial transformation
As a first step, without undermining decisions of national scope, the parties and the communities will generate the conditions for the realisation of partial agreements for immediate implementation in the areas where the FARC-EP's Central General Staff is present, prioritising the departments of Cauca, Caquetá, Arauca, Putumayo, Guaviare and Norte de Santander, to advance structural territorial transformations, with plans for comprehensive sustainable development aimed at improving the living conditions of the population in the territories.
The contents of the agreements will be constructed with the communities.
Based on the experiences and social dialogues, the MDP will elaborate a Special Agreement on Territorial Transformations in the perspective of peacebuilding with social and environmental justice, taking into account, among others, its protocols and agreements.
Among the initiatives to be evaluated in the coming months are:
a. Actions for the recuperation of Catatumbo River Basin and social plans agreed or under construction.
Other actions in Norte de Santander will be evaluated.
b. Socio-environmental plans (in consultation) in regions of Caquetá.
c. Implementation of Agreement IV in Cauca.
The parties will designate responsible persons for each of the initiatives identified above.
In this period of CFBTNT, as an urgent measure, the MDP will form a commission to monitor and evaluate the agreements signed in the Inspectorate of Los Pozos, in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán, the past five (5) March 2023, as well as the other agreements that have been signed with the peasantry of Villavicencio, Altamira, and the cases of Peñas Coloradas, Puerto Torres, Unión Unión de Peñas Coloradas, Puerto Torres, Unión Peneya and La Mona.
The Commission will arrange for the establishment of timetables, responsibilities and means for their fulfilment.
The Follow-up Commission will involve the participation of MDP accompaniers and guarantors.
Socio-environmental commitment
Generate, retake and recognise scenarios of participation of the different sectors of society for a socio-environmental agenda that reduces environmental affectations related to social, environmental and armed conflicts.
Carry out a dialogue process that contributes to the construction of the socio-environmental agenda for peace.
In this process, a national event and regional meetings could be held.
The parties undertake to create guarantees for the development of the activities derived from this point.
This process will promote agreements based on respectful socio-environmental dialogue with the participation of territorial authorities, environmental public servants, ethnic peoples and other social sectors, for the benefit of the communities and in coordination with them and the MDP.
The parties undertake to provide guarantees for the development of the social and community leaderships that emerge within the framework of this process.
In the Agenda, special attention will be given to the socio-environmental problems of the Amazon - in its different dimensions and connectivities - as well as of other protected areas in the country, recognising and strengthening initiatives for conservation, recovery, integral sustainable development and guarantees for their peoples, communities and their own economies.
Protection of the civilian population.
The MDP will follow up on the commitments already defined in the signed Agreements and Protocols and the definition of concrete plans for strict compliance with IHL and Human Rights norms.
Actions will be defined to respect indigenous peoples and communities, afro-descendants, peasants and other social sectors, their authorities and their territorial rights.
It will seek to achieve reductions in the affectations to the civilian population as a result of the social and armed conflict, in particular those that are the object of monitoring in the MDP.
Taking into account the proposals made by indigenous and afro-descendant organisations, the MDP will address in a participatory manner those that correspond to partial agreements and the methodology for the thematic agenda to include territorial, cultural and of autonomy of ethnic peoples.
The parties will contribute to programmes for tracing persons presumed missing, localisation and handover in coordination with the CICR, permanent accompaniers of the MDP, the territorial and national authorities, and community self-protection mechanisms.
It incorporates into the MDP Agenda everything related to victims' rights in IHL, such as that which refers to all violations and their causes in the framework of social and armed conflicts that must have their place in the Peace Agreements.
Social dialogues will be held with organisations and entities to advance in the evaluation and responses that are pertinent, related to, among other issues:
- Signatories of the Peace Accords.
- Peoples and communities of ethnic origin, peasants and groups of special protection.
- Populations in situations of confinement and displacement.
- Workers affected by the conflict, including those documented by the National Roundtable of Provisional Teachers in Post-Conflict Territories and by trade union organisations.
Legal Commission and security assurances
A mixed legal commission will be formed with the accompaniment of the UN Verification Mission and MAPP-OEA, to carry out a census and propose legal, security and humanitarian recommendations on the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, as well as those who are not deprived of their liberty with a legal situation yet to be resolved.
The Government Delegation will expedite steps for the evaluation of the situation of members of the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP who are deprived of their liberty, and visits will be made to promote attention to urgent legal, health, overcrowding and security situations.
The National Government reiterates the commitment of the National Protection Unit (UNP) and the National Police, in terms of security and protection, in recognition of the security guarantees for the development of the MDP and the MVMV of the Ceasefire.
The UNP and the National Police, through UNIPEP, in the framework of harmonious collaboration between the entities, will fulfil the development of the protection functions that correspond to each entity, in accordance with the protocols already agreed, the MVMV and the MDP.
The Office of the High Commissioner of Peace will process the requests for individual protection of the members of the delegations, facilitators and advisors, before the competent authority.
UNP and UNIPEP personnel in the performance of their duties and their instruments of protection, including the vehicles of all protected persons, will be the object of special protection and support, providing full guarantees for the development of their activities, in accordance with existing protocols and procedures.
Statements by the parties
The Central General Staff of the FARC-EP in development of the objectives of the CFBTNT ratifies:
1. Suspension of kidnappings for economic purposes
2. The development of actions of a humanitarian nature in relation to the prevention of armed contact, the return of civilians and/or combatants, the implementation of humanitarian corridors, amongst others.
3. Compliance with IHL in terms of linking members to their armed structures.
The Delegation of the National Government considers it necessary to respond to the demands of the population in various regions of the country due to the impact on their freedoms and rights due to clashes between armed organisations and recommends that steps be taken for dialogue between them, in the regions or at another level, in order to alleviate the situation of various forms of violence.
The parties are grateful for the accompaniment of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Colombia, as well as the MAPP-OEA, the Colombian Episcopal Conference and the World Council of Churches.
They are also grateful for the continued support of all the guarantor countries:
Norway, Venezuela, Switzerland and Ireland.
Signed at Bogota, 18 January 2024.
Signed by the parties:
Camilo González Posso
Coordinator
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Leopoldo Durán García
Head of Delegation of the Central General
Staff of the FARC-EP
Gloria Quinceno Acevedo
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
José Tomás Ojeda
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Fabio Valencia Cossio
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Javier 33
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Feliciano Valencia Medina
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Fernanda Briceño
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
[No signature]
Luz Darí Landázuri Segura
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Robinson Caicedo Ríos
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
[No signature]
Carlos Murgas Guerrero
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Franco Ramírez
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Coronel (r) Genny Calvo Olmos
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Yesid Arteta Dávil
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Oscar Gerardo Salazar Muñoz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Coronel (r) Luis Alfonso Novoa Díaz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Pedro Arenas
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Signed the guarantors as witness and depositaries:
Armando Franchi, Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Louise Wilson, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Phillip Lustenberger, Special Envoy, Swiss Confederation
Axel Støren Wedén, First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
Accompanying persons:
Raúl Rosende, Delegate of the Special, Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Colombia
Roberto Menéndez, Chief Mission, Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organisation of American States (MAPP-OEA)
[No signature], Padre Eliecer Soto Ardila, Representative Episcopal Conference of Colombia
Humberto Martín Shikiya, Representative World Council of Churches
Signed as witnesses:
Julián Lopez
Accompanying person
Central General Staff FARC-EP
Leo Ramírez
Accompanying person
Central General Staff FARC-EP
Diego Fernández
Accompanying person
Central General Staff FARC-EP
Pablo García
Accompanying person
Central General Staff FARC-EP