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Comunicado N°3: Plan de Desarrollo Alternativo para La Sustitución de Cultivos Ilícitos

  • Country/entity

    Colombia
  • Region

    Americas
  • Agreement name

    Comunicado N°3: Plan de Desarrollo Alternativo para La Sustitución de Cultivos Ilícitos
  • Date

    25 Jan 1999
  • 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 III - Arango
  • Parties

    Gobierno Nacional, FARC-EP
  • Third parties

    -
  • Description

    This notice is about the need and intention to address the social and economic question underlying the drug cultivation, and the announcement of work on an Alternative Development Plan in collaboration with the FARC-EP.


Groups

  • Children/youth

    No specific mention.

  • Disabled persons

    No specific mention.

  • Elderly/age

    No specific mention.

  • Migrant workers

    No specific mention.

  • Racial/ethnic/national group

    No specific mention.

  • Religious groups

    No specific mention.

  • Indigenous people

    No specific mention.

  • Other groups

    No specific mention.

  • Refugees/displaced persons

    No specific mention.

  • Social class

    No specific mention.


Gender

  • Women, girls and gender

    No specific mention.

  • Men and boys

    No specific mention.

  • LGBTI

    No specific mention.

  • Family

    No specific mention.


State definition

  • Nature of state (general)

    No specific mention.

  • State configuration

    No specific mention.

  • Self determination

    No specific mention.

  • Referendum

    No specific mention.

  • State symbols

    No specific mention.

  • Independence/secession

    No specific mention.

  • Accession/unification

    No specific mention.

  • Border delimitation

    No specific mention.

  • Cross-border provision

    No specific mention.


Governance

  • Political institutions (new or reformed)

    No specific mention.

  • Elections

    No specific mention.

  • Electoral commission

    No specific mention.

  • Political parties reform

    No specific mention.

  • Civil society

    No specific mention.

  • Traditional/religious leaders

    No specific mention.

  • Public administration

    No specific mention.

  • Constitution

    No specific mention.


Power sharing

  • Political power sharing

    No specific mention.

  • Territorial power sharing

    No specific mention.

  • Economic power sharing

    No specific mention.

  • Military power sharing

    No specific mention.


Human rights and equality

  • Human rights/RoL general

    No specific mention.

  • Bill of rights/similar

    No specific mention.

  • Treaty incorporation

    No specific mention.

  • Civil and political rights

    No specific mention.

  • Socio-economic rights

    No specific mention.


Rights related issues

  • Citizenship

    No specific mention.

  • Democracy

    No specific mention.

  • Detention procedures

    No specific mention.

  • Media and communication

    No specific mention.

  • Mobility/access

    No specific mention.

  • Protection measures

    No specific mention.

  • Other

    No specific mention.


Rights institutions

  • NHRI

    No specific mention.

  • Regional or international human rights institutions

    No specific mention.


Justice sector reform

  • Criminal justice and emergency law

    No specific mention.

  • State of emergency provisions

    No specific mention.

  • Judiciary and courts

    No specific mention.

  • Prisons and detention

    No specific mention.

  • Traditional Laws

    No specific mention.


Socio-economic reconstruction

  • Development or socio-economic reconstruction
    Socio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Socio-economic development
    Page 1, Article 2,
    Recognise the priority that must be given to solving the social and economic problem of
    illicit crops in order to build peace, providing peasants with real alternatives through an
    adequate exploitation of natural resources, and with production programmes that are
    profitable for their beneficiaries. Trials for the substitution of these crops will be carried
    out will be carried out in partnership with FARC–EP via the Alternative Development
    Plan.

    Page 1, Article 3,
    Work on building a sustainable development model based on the country’s social and
    environmental potential in a participative process that allows respect for the country’s
    ecological heritage and environmental conservation as a source of national and global
    wealth for present and future generations.
  • National economic plan

    No specific mention.

  • Natural resources
    Page 1, Article 2,
    Recognise the priority that must be given to solving the social and economic problem of
    illicit crops in order to build peace, providing peasants with real alternatives through an
    adequate exploitation of natural resources, and with production programmes that are
    profitable for their beneficiaries. Trials for the substitution of these crops will be carried
    out will be carried out in partnership with FARC–EP via the Alternative Development
    Plan.
  • International funds

    No specific mention.

  • Business

    No specific mention.

  • Taxation

    No specific mention.

  • Banks

    No specific mention.


Land, property and environment

  • Land reform/rights

    No specific mention.

  • Pastoralist/nomadism rights

    No specific mention.

  • Cultural heritage

    No specific mention.

  • Environment
    Page 1, Article 3,
    Work on building a sustainable development model based on the country’s social and
    environmental potential in a participative process that allows respect for the country’s
    ecological heritage and environmental conservation as a source of national and global
    wealth for present and future generations.
  • Water or riparian rights or access

    No specific mention.


Security sector

  • Security Guarantees

    No specific mention.

  • Ceasefire

    No specific mention.

  • Police

    No specific mention.

  • Armed forces

    No specific mention.

  • DDR

    No specific mention.

  • Intelligence services

    No specific mention.

  • Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forces

    No specific mention.

  • Withdrawal of foreign forces

    No specific mention.

  • Corruption

    No specific mention.

  • Crime/organised crime

    No specific mention.

  • Drugs
    Page 1, Article 2,
    Recognise the priority that must be given to solving the social and economic problem of
    illicit crops in order to build peace, providing peasants with real alternatives through an
    adequate exploitation of natural resources, and with production programmes that are
    profitable for their beneficiaries. Trials for the substitution of these crops will be carried
    out will be carried out in partnership with FARC–EP via the Alternative Development
    Plan.
  • Terrorism

    No specific mention.


Transitional justice

  • Transitional justice general

    No specific mention.

  • Amnesty/pardon

    No specific mention.

  • Courts

    No specific mention.

  • Mechanism

    No specific mention.

  • Prisoner release

    No specific mention.

  • Vetting

    No specific mention.

  • Victims

    No specific mention.

  • Missing persons

    No specific mention.

  • Reparations

    No specific mention.

  • Reconciliation

    No specific mention.


Implementation

  • UN signatory

    No specific mention.

  • Other international signatory

    No specific mention.

  • Referendum for agreement

    No specific mention.

  • International mission/force/similar

    No specific mention.

  • Enforcement mechanism

    No specific mention.

  • Related cases

    No specific mention.

  • Source
    Diálogo, negociación y ruptura con las FARC-EP y con el ELN, Biblioteca de la Paz – 1998-2000, Fundación Cultura Democrática, Ed. Álvaro Villarraga Sarmiento, Bogotá D.C., 2009 (book V) p. 171

COMMUNICATION NO.

3:

ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE SUBSTITUTION OF ILLICIT CROPS

San Vicente del Caguán, 25 January 1999

The spokespeople for the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército Popular, FARC–EP), present in La Machaca in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán in the department of Caquetá, have agreed the following:

Reaffirm the parties’ desire to continue working toward a political solution to the severe crisis affecting the country, based on the joint construction of a state governed by equality and social justice.

Recognise the priority that must be given to solving the social and economic problem of illicit crops in order to build peace, providing peasants with real alternatives through an adequate exploitation of natural resources, and with production programmes that are profitable for their beneficiaries.

Trials for the substitution of these crops will be carried out will be carried out in partnership with FARC–EP via the Alternative Development Plan.

Work on building a sustainable development model based on the country’s social and environmental potential in a participative process that allows respect for the country’s ecological heritage and environmental conservation as a source of national and global wealth for present and future generations.

For the government:

VÍCTOR G. RICARDO

RODOLFO ESPINPOSA MEÓLA

NICANOR RESTREPO SANTAMARÍA

FABIO VALENIA COSSIO

MARÍA EMMA MEJÍA VÉLEZ

For FARC–EP:

RAÚL REYES

JOAQUÍN GÓMEZ

FABIÁN RAMÍREZ