• Country/entity

  Colombia
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Acuerdo, Normas Fundamentales de los Campamentos de Paz, EPL-Gobierno Nacional

• Date

  10 Oct 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 Mando Central del EPL: BERNARDO GUTIERREZ
  Por la Consejeria Presidencial de Paz: JESUS ANTONIO BEJARANO A.

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  The agreement focuses on the designated camps for the EPL, and the rules governing the camps agreed between the EPL and the government for the members of the EPL during the negotiations, including food provision and medical attention. The only people allowed outside these camps are the legal representatives/spokespeople of the group. In addition, the parties agree on the establishment of a commission who will study programmes and projects for the education, employment and recreation of the combatants.

• Agreement document

  CO_901010_ACUERDO, NORMAS FUNDAMENTALES DE LOS CAMPAMENTOS DE PAZ EPL GOBIERNO NATIONAL - tr.pdf | Download PDF

• Agreement document (original language)

  CO_901010_ACUERDO, NORMAS FUNDAMENTALES DE LOS CAMPAMENTOS DE PAZ EPL GOBIERNO NATIONAL.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 ON POPULAR LIBERATION ARMY CAMPS – NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

To facilitate the installation and operation of camps, the national government and the Popular Liberation Army (Ejército Popular de Liberación, EPL) agree the fundamental rules that will govern them:

Camps are sites where all EPL armed forces are grouped and their continued presence on these sites will depend on compliance with the agreement signed between the national government and EPL.

When the EPL armed forces move to camps, it will suspend all recruitment work.

From the moment all EPL forces are grouped in camps until their dissolution, the national government undertakes to provide food and meet their health requirements.

It will also permanently station a doctor, who will be coordinator of all activities of his/her specialisation, at each of the camps.

As long as the camps remain, only members of the organisation who are named as either legal representatives or members of political commissions agreed between the national government and EPL will be permitted to circulate outside them.

The national government will fund the infrastructure requirements to allow the force to move in to each of the camps.

In each of the towns where camps are located and as regards the civil population, EPL reaffirms its behaviour toward the property and assets of the public, as well as cohesion with the community and public activities.

For the duration of the phase in which EPL forces are concentrated in camps, the movement will be entitled to receive support from the community in money or in kind, but will strictly abstain from exercising any sort of pressure for this to occur.

Entry to camps will be free but controlled.

This means that all those who wish to do so may enter, except for public officials, who will be governed by Presidential Directive 34, 10 October 1990.

The insurgent group will be entitled to locate special protection points in the areas surrounding the site selected for the location of the camp.

This area and the area of the camps will be referred to as the Camp Zone.

The Camp Zone will be followed by an unpatrolled neutral strip.

Outside the neutral area, the national army will establish the measures required for the protection of the camp.

All camps that are established will have a single official access point that must be used by anyone who enters.

At this point, the government will establish a post for the control of all people entering the camp under the following terms.

EPL representatives will be allowed to be present at this site to monitor compliance with agreements in terms of the free access to camps.

At this site the presence of the armed forces will be allowed to support representatives of the council, with their work will be restricted to searching people, equipment and vehicles.

At the point of entry to the camp, the council will establish a control post at which people, equipment and vehicles will be searched by the armed forces.

At this point, anyone wishing to enter the camp must register their personal information on a form specially designed for this purpose.

These forms will only be processed by the Presidential Council for Reconciliation, Nationalisation and Restoration.

When the armed forces are concentrated in the camps, the government and EPL will form a commission to study programmes and projects for the education, work training and leisure of the members of the armed group, with the government committed to their subsequent implementation.