FARC praises suspension of air strikes, opposition rejects reciprocation to ceasefire
FARC praises suspension of air strikes, opposition rejects reciprocation to ceasefire
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Jul 27, 2015
Colombia’s rebel group FARC on Sunday praised President Juan Manuel Santos‘ move to suspend air strikes on guerrilla targets in an attempt to deescalate the ongoing armed conflict. The conservative opposition in Congress rejected the initiative.
Santos announced on Saturday that he had ordered the military to suspend air strikes on rebel camps less than a week after the FARC’s second unilateral and indefinite ceasefire this year came into force.
Both initiatives are a response to the United Nations and international sponsor countries of ongoing peace talks, who all had called for “urgent” measures to deescalate the violence that caused a drop in public support of the talks and confidence the nearly three-year talks would come to a good end.
The foreign officials had convinced the warring parties to begin taking the necessary steps towards a bilateral ceasefire while negotiators struggle to come to agreement on the final points on the agenda on the peace talks: Victims and End of Conflict.
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http://colombiareports.com/farc-praises-suspension-of-air-strikes-opposition-rejects-reciprocation-to-ceasefire/
