For 5 days, the Table of Dialogue with the ELN had to hold extraordinary sessions, to clarify the President’s statements about the supposed sole motivations of the conflict and the character of the ELN.
The delegations of the Government of the Republic of Colombia and the National Liberation Army – ELN, inform:
1. We resume the ordinary sessions of the Dialogue Table, after having made a first exchange of clarifications on the recent interventions of President Gustavo Petro.
2. In the immediate future, we will articulate the Mexico Agreement and the set of agreements that have been made at the table, with the visions and proposals made by the President of the Republic.
3. We reaffirm the political character of this dialogue table, its agreements and of the ELN as an armed rebel organization.
4. We will continue to develop a joint vision of the conflict and the solutions that the country requires.
5. We reiterate our commitment to achieve in this cycle the agreements on bilateral and national cease-fire, participation of society in peace-building, and humanitarian actions and dynamics.
6. We ratify our firm decision to remain at the table until we reach a peace agreement with the transformations that the country needs.
7. We thank the Cuban people and government for hosting the current cycle of dialogues and we join the worldwide clamor for the United States government to stop considering the Republic of Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism.
Havana, May 17, 2023.
From: https://eln-voces.net/continuan-los-trabajos-de-la-mesa-de-dialogos-de-paz-en-cuba/