• Country/entity

  Colombia
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Reglamento de las Audiencias Públicas, Comunicado No.10, Mesa Nacional de Diálogos y Negociación

• Date

  10 Mar 2000

• 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

  For the national government:
  VÍCTOR G. RICARDO, High Commissioner for Peace
  CAMILO GÓMEZ ALZATE, Negotiator
  FABIO VALENCIA COSSIO, Negotiator
  PEDRO GÓMEZ BARRERO, Negotiator
  GONZALO FORERO DELGADILLO, Negotiator
  JUAN GABRIEL URIBE, Negotiator
  NESTOR HUMBERTO MARTÍNEZ, Coordinator of the Thematic Committee.
  
  For FARC:
  RAÚL REYES, Negotiator
  JOAQUÍN GÓMEZ, Negotiator
  FABIÁN RAMÍREZ, Negotiator
  IVÁN RÍOS, Coordinator of the Thematic Committee

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  This agreement deals with the rules, components, order of the day and practicalities such as times etc. of the public audiences.

• Agreement document

  CO_000310_Negociaciones de Paz en Colombia_ Comunicado Número 10_ Reglamento de las Audiencias Públicas - tr.pdf | Download PDF

• Agreement document (original language)

  CO_000310_Negociaciones de Paz en Colombia_ Comunicado Número 10_ Reglamento de las Audiencias Públicas.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

ROUNDTABLE FOR DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIA AND THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA – PEOPLE’S ARMY

COMMUNICATION NO.

10:

REGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC AUDIENCES

10 March 2000

The National Roundtable for Dialogue and Negotiation met with the Coordinators of the National Thematic Committee to hear reports and proposals and make decisions regarding the preparations for and holding of the first public hearings, the call for participants, registration and comprehensive information for all Colombians.

It was agreed to produce a new programme to promote and explain the public audiences on Monday 20 March at 20:00, in addition to an informative teleconference on 27 March.

The following regulations were approved for public audiences.

How to hold an audience

Public audiences have the following components:

Call for participants

Registration, accreditation and control

Hearing

Facilitating board

Agenda

Regulations.

1. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

In line with the topic defined by the National Roundtable for Dialogue and Negotiation, the National Thematic Committee will issue broad public calls for participants, guaranteeing the representative, open, democratic, ordered and plural participation of Colombians.

The thematic committee will be entitled to support from various representative organisations and to convene special audiences.

2. REGISTRATION, ACCREDITATION AND CONTROL

The National Thematic Committee will organise registration for the audiences via forms that will be distributed through the media and by email.

It will also be possible to register via fax, telephone, freepost and email.

There will be a deadline for registration for public audiences, which will be published alongside the call for participants.

The National Thematic Committee will provide registrants with timely notice of the date for their participation.

All those registered for a specific date must visit the thematic committee’s office in San Vicente del Caguán for accreditation, where they will be given the respective rosette and will be assigned to the sole authorised transport to Villa Nueva Colombia.

3. HEARING

The hearing involves a group of people who meet at each audience to present their proposals to the National Thematic Committee.

The normal number of participants in hearings is 50, although in some cases flexibility is allowed and audiences may be held with fewer or more people.

In addition to the registered participants, there may also be a number of people who attend as observers.

The hearing must provide an appropriate atmosphere for reflection.

4. FACILITATING BOARD

The facilitating board will comprise two moderators (one per party) and two reporters (one per party).

One moderator and reporter may be assigned to the morning and the others for the afternoon.

The functions of the moderators are:

chairing the meeting, explaining the participation mechanism, setting out the agenda, controlling the time of interventions and maintaining order at the premises (i.e. the presenter sticks to the topic and the hearing maintains composure and silence).

Any modifications that may arise during the course of the audience will be made by consensus among the moderators.

Reporters have the following duties:

listening and taking careful note of each of the interventions, summarising the points and proposals made by attendees and producing their report for the coordinators of the committee, who, supported by the technical secretariat, will prepare the respective technical document with the proposals from each participant.

5. AGENDA

The audiences will be based around the following structure:

Presentation of the facilitating board and verification of attendees

Presentation of the topic and explanation of the mechanism

Presentation of proposals by the audience

Closing.

6. REGULATIONS

Sessions will begin at 08:00, with a mid-morning break.

Lunch will be from 12:00 and sessions will restart at 14:00, running until 16:00, when the audience will end.

Specific times may be established for special hearings in certain sectors.

At a normal audience, each intervention will have five minutes to present a summary of the proposal.

No more than 15 minutes may be spent on opening and closing the audience.

Interruptions will not be permitted.

Moderators will only be allowed to interrupt a presentation if it is used to disqualify other presentations, slander or make personal allegations, or for reasons other than setting out a presentation and explaining a proposal on the topic that has been defined.

At the end of each intervention, the moderators will be entitled to ask a specific question to clarify the proposal.

If a participant is not present at the hearing when they are called to speak and is unable to justify their absence before the board, they will lose the right to intervene, although they will be entitled to submit their proposal in writing.

To allow sufficient time for communication of the topic and the methodology, the call for participants, registration and the preparation of the respective proposals, it was decided to schedule the first public audience for Sunday, 9 April 2000.

Villa Nueva Colombia, 10 March 2000

For the national government:

VÍCTOR G. RICARDO, High Commissioner for Peace

CAMILO GÓMEZ ALZATE, Negotiator

FABIO VALENCIA COSSIO, Negotiator

PEDRO GÓMEZ BARRERO, Negotiator

GONZALO FORERO DELGADILLO, Negotiator

JUAN GABRIEL URIBE, Negotiator

NESTOR HUMBERTO MARTÍNEZ, Coordinator of the Thematic Committee.

For FARC:

RAÚL REYES, Negotiator

JOAQUÍN GÓMEZ, Negotiator

FABIÁN RAMÍREZ, Negotiator

IVÁN RÍOS, Coordinator of the Thematic Committee