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