The Colombian government and the ELN agree to negotiate a ceasefire

The Colombian government and the ELN guerrillas have pledged to start talks for a ceasefire, at the end of the second round of peace negotiations in Mexico on Friday March 10.

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The framework of the coming pact will be international humanitarian law, adds the text read by indigenous leader Dayana Domicó, a member of the government delegation of left-wing Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

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Six decades of armed conflict

Delegates from the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have been in talks in Mexico since February 13.

One of the objectives of the dialogue was to lay the foundations for a ceasefire.

On Wednesday, they announced the holding in Cuba of a third round of negotiations aimed at ending nearly six decades of armed conflict, without, however, specifying the date on which this new round would take place.

Havana had hosted the negotiations that led in 2016 to the demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which for years was the main guerrilla in Colombia.

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Talks between the Colombian government and the ELN began in 2018 in Havana under the government of President Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), to which his successor, Iván Duque (2018-2022), ended in 2019 at the end of following a guerrilla attack on a police academy in Bogotá, which left 23 dead.