• Country/entity

  Colombia
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Acuerdo entre el PCC M-L, EPL, Quintín Lame y PRT y Partidos Políticos Signatarios del Acuerdo Para la Constituyente

• Date

  24 Sep 1990

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Colombian Conflict (1964 - ) )

• Stage

  Pre-negotiation/process

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Colombia I - Gaviria

• Parties

  Por el Movimiento de Salvacion Nacional: RODRIGO MARIN BERNAL. Por el Partido Social Conservador: DIEGO PARDO KOPPEL. Por la Alianza Democrática M-19: DIEGO MONTÑA CUELLAR, CAMILO GONZALEZ, JAMIE FAJARDO, OTTO ÑAÑEZ.
  
  Por el Mando Central del EPL, BERNARDO GUTiERREZ, OCTAVIO HERNANDEZ, CARLOS ALBERTO RESTREPO Y JAIRO MORALES. Por la direccion nacional del PRT: SERGIO SIERRA Y VÍCTOR CRUZ. Por el Estado Mayor del Quintín Lame: LEONARDO ULCUÉ, MAURICIO PAEZ.
  
  Por el Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista: JORGE OCAMPO Y RAÚL TEJADA

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  This document welcomes previous steps and reaffirms the signatories’ participation and commitment to previous agreements, a political solution to the conflict and political participation. They ask for the inclusion of other groups (social movements esp. indigenous, student and insurgent), a vote, political guarantees and access to media for communications. They ask to negotiate the topics of constitutional norms regulating politics and international relations, and modification of the article XVIII of the constitution on the public force and of the presidency. The Armado Quintin Lame movement refuses to participate in negotiations as long as indigenous groups are not included.

• Agreement document

  CO_900924_ACUERDO ENTRE EL PCC M-L, EPL, QUINTÍN LAME Y PRT Y PARTIDOS POLITICOS - tr.pdf | Download PDF

• Agreement document (original language)

  CO_900924_ACUERDO ENTRE EL PCC M-L, EPL, QUINTÍN LAME Y PRT Y PARTIDOS POLITICOS.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF COLOMBIA (MARXIST–LENINIST), THE QUINTIN LAME ARMED MOVEMENT, THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’ PARTY AND POLITICAL PARTIES SIGNATORY TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT IN LABORES, BELMIRA, ANTIOQUIA

24 September 1990

Based on the deliberations that have taken place, we inform the public of the following:

We reiterate the willingness of the participants to continue facilitating processes and mechanisms that link the National Constitutional Assembly to the political solution to the armed conflict.

We reaffirm the conviction that the assembly must make an effective contribution to a path toward peace and democratisation.

The representatives of the signatory forces to the agreement acknowledge the progress in the peace process between the government and the Popular Liberation Army (Ejército Popular de Liberación, EPL), the Quintin Lame Armed Movement (Movimiento Armado Quintín Lame, MAQL), and the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT).

We regard the participation of representatives of these groups in the constitutional assembly as important for making progress toward democratisation and peaceful coexistence.

We manifest our willingness to hear proposals from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) and the Camilist Union-National Liberation Army (Union Camilista- Ejercito de Liberation Nacional, UC-ELN) and facilitate the search for ways to permit their involvement in the constitutional assembly.

The guerrilla organisations that are present, the Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist) (Partido Comunista de Colombia [Marxista Leninista], PCC), propose the expansion of the agreement, the inclusion of new issues regarding the participation of social movements, especially the indigenous, student and insurgent movements, voting with the use of polling cards, and a climate of political guarantees and access to the media.

The following topics are proposed:

constitutional regulations for politics and international relations;

possible modification of Title XVIII of the constitution regarding the public forces and modifications to the presidential regime in the form of a parliamentary regime.

The spokespeople for the signatory organisations take note of the proposals above, which they will examine together with the rest of the signatories where this is legally and politically possible.

The signatories express their willingness to support all initiatives that make the agreements between guerrilla groups and the government regarding the assembly viable.

As attendees of the meeting, we stress the importance of the efforts to expand the national debate to enrich the works and definitions for the assembly with broad participation from all social and political sectors, also taking advantage of the effect of committees.

MAQL expresses the caveat that it will not participate in the talks and commissions appointed by the government so long as the indigenous movement does not obtain special participation in the constitution as an ethnic minority.