Colombia’s former President of the Nobel Peace Prize, Juan Manuel Santos, responds to the groups of the reunited world armies in the organization The Elders, has solited this March to the President of the United States Joe Biden who revoked the designation of Cuba as a “Patron Saint of terrorism ”, A mediating controversy of the Donald Trump Administration. The inclusion in the last minute of the island in the black list of the State Department entorpece retomar the policy of access between Washington and La Habana, as projected the democratic mandate.
“The decision of the State Administration to redesign Cuba as the Patron Saint of Terrorism has been unequivocally rejected. President Biden should immediately announce the revision process to revoke this “, said Santos in a statement received by The Elders, the organization founded by the South African Nelson Mandela in 2007.” Cuba should be applauded for the critical function he initiated end decades of conflict and facilitate reconciliation in Colombia, and do not seek sanctions against haberdashery. The peacekeeping and reconnaissance process facilitates our peace process, ”said the Nobel Peace Prize winner, following the agreement reached in the 2016 FARC guerrilla finals, which was disarmed and converted into a political party.
Colombia is, to a lesser extent, behind the decision against Cuba. The Secretary of State for Salvation, Mike Pompeo, justifies the first steps in his decision of the 11th of January, in the words of the Biden position, in a repetitive advertisement of the Governor of Ivan Duque, the successor of Santos. In Bogotá, irritating the negative of La Habana extradited to a group of commanders of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last active guerrilla in Colombia. As is the case with the FARC dialogues, the island is hosting the Gobierno countries’ negotiations with the ELN, which will take place in 2019 through the attack on rebels against a cadet school in Bogotá. Cuba has refused to send to the guerrilla dome negotiated by the rupture protocols that housed the Colombian state, which has raised tensions between Latin American capitals.
“The ELN negotiators have received formal guarantees of secure recovery, in accordance with the existing protocols for peace negotiations, which the Cuban governor must defend,” The Elders said in a statement issued in London. Chilean Ricardo Lagos and Mexican Ernesto Zedillo are some of the executives who form part of the group, as well as Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General. The organization, currently chaired by the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, has at times responded to the peace process with the FARC.
The other architectural architects agreed with the FARC, the Humberto de la Calle and Sergio Jaramillo negotiators, who defended the Cuban papal government as guarantor of the pact. What is in play only is a possible action with the ELN or the relations of the United States with the island, “without the possibility of taking part in any negotiations”, I would like to pass my statement on the reconciliation and I appreciate the generosity and professionalism that the Cuban government has in favor of Colombia.
Norway, the other guarantor of the process with the FARC, has stated that if the countries that facilitate efforts to meet the risk of ending up included in the black list of terrorists, it will have to think twice before supporting them. As Vice President Barack Obama, Biden has now responded decisively to the Habana Dialogues, and the new Administration has announced that Colombia’s peace is one of its priorities in the region.