Peace Negotiations
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 05:12
The White House on Tuesday requested $450.6 million for fiscal year 2017 to support Colombia’s anti-narcotics campaign and peace-building efforts in a program it’s dubbing Paz Colombia, officials said. In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, William Brownfield, the assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said the money would be roughly split 50-50 between economic and social programs
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 05:09
President Obama’s recent pledge of $450 million to support Colombia’s peace process (dubbed “Paz Colombia”) is a significant political boost. However, it is a drop in the bucket in terms of what that South American country will need to demobilize and resettle guerrillas and develop swaths of territory isolated by 50 years of armed conflict.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 05:57
The National Liberation Army, Colombia's second-largest leftist rebel group, must release a civilian and a soldier held hostage before the government will agree to begin a peace process, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday.
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 05:17
As Colombia nears a historic treaty to formally end the oldest armed conflict in the Americas, its president, Juan Manuel Santos, came to Washington on Wednesday to ask President Obama for money and other help for the complicated task of post-war reconstruction.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:09
All the gains under Plan Colombia — as the U.S.-Colombia partnership has come to be known — now hang in the balance as a result of President Santos’s surprising decision three years ago to launch yet another peace process with the FARC, a $600 million-a-year narco-terrorist enterprise that has waged war on Colombian society for five decades.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:42
South Sudanese former Vice President, Riek Machar, has called on the United States (US) government to support the implementation of the peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir in August last year to end 21 months of violent conflict in the country. He made the call on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in a meeting with US officials who are observer delegates to the African Union (AU), urging them to stand against violations of the peace agreement by the government.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 05:04
The peace delegations of the Colombian government and the FARC called on the UN Security Council to approve a one-year, renewable, unarmed political mission to monitor and verify with the parties an anticipated bilateral ceasefire, and to oversee the cessation of hostilities, and setting aside of arms.Days later, the international community began to respond.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:19
Members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday received a draft of a resolution that calls for establishing a U.N. mission to oversee disarmament should Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels reach a final peace deal.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 05:40
Several diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity that Britain is drafting the resolution and has already presented the other four veto-wielding permanent council members - the United States, France, Russia and China - with a draft text that could go to a vote in the coming weeks.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:24
Mali called for the swift implementation of a peace agreement with Tuareg-led rebels during talks on Monday seen as vital for preventing a resurgence of Islamist militant attacks in the vast West African nation. The two sides signed the United Nations-backed deal last year but the Tuareg-led coalition has complained that it falls short of their demands for their northern region, which they call Azawad.