Acuerdo Gobierno nacional-CRS, Flor del Monte
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ColombiaRegion
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Acuerdo Gobierno nacional-CRS, Flor del MonteDate
18 Dec 1993Agreement status
Multiparty signed/agreedInterim arrangement
YesAgreement/conflict level
Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( )Stage
Pre-negotiation/processConflict nature
GovernmentPeace process
Colombia I - GaviriaParties
Por el Gobierno nacional FABI0 VILLEGAS RAMIREZ Ministro de Gobierno CARLOS EDUARDO JARAMILLO
Por la Corriente de Renovacion Socialista GABRIEL BORIA JACINTO RUJZThird parties
Consejero para la Paz Testigo Tutor MONSEÑOR NEL BELTRAN Obispo de Sincelejo OBSERVADOR INTERNACIONAL JEAN DROSS Embajador Países Bajos ante el Gobierno de ColombiaDescription
The agreement deals with various issues relating to the process between the Corrient de Renovacion Socalista (CRS) and the government, setting out also principles. It touches upon the disarmament of the CRS forces, their relocation and the establishment of a demilitarized zone, the appointment of spokespeople and a comprehensive agenda for further talks.
Agreement document
Agreement document (original language)
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 societyPage 1, Article 2,
The national leadership of CRS communicates its decision to maintain its unilateral ceasefire and suspend all offensive activities and those that may affect the civil population. Similarly, the national government reaffirms its decision to continue implementing programmes to combat all factors of violence affecting Colombian society.
Page 2, Article 6,
The following agenda is established to reach final agreements, for which relevant organisations and figures will be invited to make contributions prior to discussion of the items:
1. human rights;
2. public participation;
3. economic consensus;
4. regional development;
5. economic and social reinsertion;
6. political favourability;
7. legal benefits;
8. the surrender of arms.
Page 2, Article 7,
The agenda item for regional development includes the implementation of special social investment programmes for zones affected by the conflict between the state and CRS. The design of these programmes will be discussed as part of the agenda and their implementation will consider the use of community participation and governmental investment mechanisms established for this purpose.
Page 2, Article 8,
The national government and CRS invite the church to act as moral tutor of the process and witness to the negotiations and the agreements reached. To verify compliance with the final agreements, the national government and CRS will establish a monitoring commission, which will include international organisations, in addition to the government and CRS. One of these organisations is invited as observer for the signing of the initial political agreement and the discussion of the verification mechanisms for the final agreements.
Page 3, Article 9,
The government and CRS invite the media and the community in general to follow and support this negotiation to ensure it contributes to the peace and development of the country. - Traditional/religious leadersPage 2, Article 8,
The national government and CRS invite the church to act as moral tutor of the process and witness to the negotiations and the agreements reached. To verify compliance with the final agreements, the national government and CRS will establish a monitoring commission, which will include international organisations, in addition to the government and CRS. One of these organisations is invited as observer for the signing of the initial political agreement and the discussion of the verification mechanisms for the final agreements.
Page 3, [the following sign the agreement]
Consejero para la Paz Testigo Tutor MONSEÑOR NEL BELTRAN Obispo de Sincelejo
OBSERVADOR INTERNACIONAL JEAN DROSS Embajador Países Bajos ante el Gobierno de Colombia - 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 generalPage 2, Article 6,
The following agenda is established to reach final agreements, for which relevant organisations and figures will be invited to make contributions prior to discussion of the items:
1. human rights;
2. public participation;
3. economic consensus;
4. regional development;
5. economic and social reinsertion;
6. political favourability;
7. legal benefits;
8. the surrender of arms. - 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 communicationRights related issues→Media and communication→Media rolesPage 3, Article 9,
The government and CRS invite the media and the community in general to follow and support this negotiation to ensure it contributes to the peace and development of the country. - 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 reconstructionSocio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Socio-economic developmentPage 2, Article 6,
The following agenda is established to reach final agreements, for which relevant organisations and figures will be invited to make contributions prior to discussion of the items:
..
3. economic consensus;
4. regional development;
5. economic and social reinsertion;
...
Page 2, Article 7,
The agenda item for regional development includes the implementation of special social investment programmes for zones affected by the conflict between the state and CRS. The design of these programmes will be discussed as part of the agenda and their implementation will consider the use of community participation and governmental investment mechanisms established for this purpose. - National economic plan
No specific mention.
- Natural resources
No specific mention.
- 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
No specific mention.
- Water or riparian rights or access
No specific mention.
Security sector
- Security Guarantees
No specific mention.
- CeasefireSecurity sector→Ceasefire→Ceasefire provisionPage 1, Article 2,
The national leadership of CRS communicates its decision to maintain its unilateral ceasefire and suspend all offensive activities and those that may affect the civil population. Similarly, the national government reaffirms its decision to continue implementing programmes to combat all factors of violence affecting Colombian society.
Page 1, Article 3,
To ensure an effective negotiation process that allows full verification of the ceasefire, CRS members will relocate to Flor del Monte, in the municipality of Ovejas, in the department of Sucre, where Decree 2198, 1993, will apply for the duration of negotiations. - Police
No specific mention.
- Armed forces
No specific mention.
- DDRSecurity sector→DDR→DDR programmesPage 1, Article 1,
The national government and the Current of Socialist Renewal (Corriente de Renovación Socialista, CRS), in the belief that the negotiation process contributes to the political solution to the armed conflict, reaffirm their desire to pursue the process to reach agreements that allow peaceful coexistence, the reincorporation of members of the guerrilla group into civil life and its transformation into a legal political movement.
Page 1, Article 4,
Upon the relocation of CRS members to Flor del Monte, a demilitarised zone will be defined free from the presence of state security bodies and CRS members. The national government will establish control mechanisms to facilitate the normal development of negotiations.
Page 2, Article 6,
The following agenda is established to reach final agreements, for which relevant organisations and figures will be invited to make contributions prior to discussion of the items:
1. human rights;
2. public participation;
3. economic consensus;
4. regional development;
5. economic and social reinsertion;
6. political favourability;
7. legal benefits;
8. the surrender of arms.
Page 2, Article 7,
The agenda item for regional development includes the implementation of special social investment programmes for zones affected by the conflict between the state and CRS. The design of these programmes will be discussed as part of the agenda and their implementation will consider the use of community participation and governmental investment mechanisms established for this purpose. - Intelligence services
No specific mention.
- Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forcesPage 1, Article 1,
The national government and the Current of Socialist Renewal (Corriente de Renovación Socialista, CRS), in the belief that the negotiation process contributes to the political solution to the armed conflict, reaffirm their desire to pursue the process to reach agreements that allow peaceful coexistence, the reincorporation of members of the guerrilla group into civil life and its transformation into a legal political movement.
Page 1, Article 4,
Upon the relocation of CRS members to Flor del Monte, a demilitarised zone will be defined free from the presence of state security bodies and CRS members. The national government will establish control mechanisms to facilitate the normal development of negotiations.
Pages 1-2, Article 5,
To promote the negotiating process, CRS will appoint five national and two regional spokespeople, chosen from candidates who have no legal impediments or judicial requirements. The spokespeople will have three premises located in the cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga to facilitate their activities, in addition to security and transport services provided by the state for exercising their functions.
CRS appoints the following national spokespeople:
1. Franklin Alberto Donado Huertas (San Juan Nepomuceno)
2. Carlos Eduardo Caycedo Quar (Santa Marta)
3. Norma Lucía Bermúdez (Pereira)
CRS appoints the following regional spokespeople:
1. Luis Alberto Cabeza Espinel (Bucaramanga)
2. Spokesperson for Barranquilla to be defined. - Withdrawal of foreign forces
No specific mention.
- Corruption
No specific mention.
- Crime/organised crime
No specific mention.
- Drugs
No specific mention.
- 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 signatoryOBSERVADOR INTERNACIONAL JEAN DROSS Embajador Países Bajos ante el Gobierno de Colombia
- Referendum for agreement
No specific mention.
- International mission/force/similar
No specific mention.
- Enforcement mechanismPage 2, Article 8,
The national government and CRS invite the church to act as moral guarantor of the process and witness to the negotiations and the agreements reached. To verify compliance with the final agreements, the national government and CRS will establish a monitoring commission, which will include international organisations, in addition to the government and CRS. One of these organisations is invited as observer for the signing of the initial political agreement and the discussion of the verification mechanisms for the final agreements. - Related cases
No specific mention.
- SourceAcuerdos con el EPL, MAQL y CRS, Diálogos con la CGSB, Biblioteca de la Paz – 1990-1994, Fundación Cultura Democrática, Ed. Álvaro Villarraga Sarmiento, Bogotá D.C., 2009 (book III) p. 376
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CURRENT OF SOCIALIST RENEWAL IN FLOR DEL MONTE
18 December 1993
The national government and the Current of Socialist Renewal (Corriente de Renovación Socialista, CRS), in the belief that the negotiation process contributes to the political solution to the armed conflict, reaffirm their desire to pursue the process to reach agreements that allow peaceful coexistence, the reincorporation of members of the guerrilla group into civil life and its transformation into a legal political movement.
The national leadership of CRS communicates its decision to maintain its unilateral ceasefire and suspend all offensive activities and those that may affect the civil population.
Similarly, the national government reaffirms its decision to continue implementing programmes to combat all factors of violence affecting Colombian society.
To ensure an effective negotiation process that allows full verification of the ceasefire, CRS members will relocate to Flor del Monte, in the municipality of Ovejas, in the department of Sucre, where Decree 2198, 1993, will apply for the duration of negotiations.
Upon the relocation of CRS members to Flor del Monte, a demilitarised zone will be defined free from the presence of state security bodies and CRS members.
The national government will establish control mechanisms to facilitate the normal development of negotiations.
To promote the negotiating process, CRS will appoint five national and two regional spokespeople, chosen from candidates who have no legal impediments or judicial requirements.
The spokespeople will have three premises located in the cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga to facilitate their activities, in addition to security and transport services provided by the state for exercising their functions.
CRS appoints the following national spokespeople:
Franklin Alberto Donado Huertas (San Juan Nepomuceno)
Carlos Eduardo Caycedo Quar (Santa Marta)
Norma Lucía Bermúdez (Pereira)
CRS appoints the following regional spokespeople:
Luis Alberto Cabeza Espinel (Bucaramanga)
Spokesperson for Barranquilla to be defined.
The following agenda is established to reach final agreements, for which relevant organisations and figures will be invited to make contributions prior to discussion of the items:
human rights;
public participation;
economic consensus;
regional development;
economic and social reinsertion;
political favourability;
legal benefits;
the surrender of arms.
The agenda item for regional development includes the implementation of special social investment programmes for zones affected by the conflict between the state and CRS.
The design of these programmes will be discussed as part of the agenda and their implementation will consider the use of community participation and governmental investment mechanisms established for this purpose.
The national government and CRS invite the church to act as moral tutor of the process and witness to the negotiations and the agreements reached.
To verify compliance with the final agreements, the national government and CRS will establish a monitoring commission, which will include international organisations, in addition to the government and CRS.
One of these organisations is invited as observer for the signing of the initial political agreement and the discussion of the verification mechanisms for the final agreements.
The government and CRS invite the media and the community in general to follow and support this negotiation to ensure it contributes to the peace and development of the country.
Por el Gobierno nacional
FABI0 VILLEGAS RAMIREZ
Ministro de Gobierno
CARLOS EDUARDO JARAMILLO
Consejero para la Paz Testigo Tutor
MONSEÑOR NEL BELTRAN
Obispo de Sincelejo
OBSERVADOR INTERNACIONAL
JEAN DROSS
Embajador Países Bajos ante el Gobierno de Colombia
Por la Corriente de Renovacion Socialista
GABRIEL BORIA
JACINTO RUJZ