• Country/entity

  El Salvador
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  New York Act

• Date

  31 Dec 1991

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( El Salvador Civil War (1979 - 1992) )

• Stage

  Framework/substantive - partial

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  El Salvador peace process

• Parties

  Representing the Government of El Salvador: (Signed) Mr. Oscar SANTAMARIA; (Signed) Col. Mauricio Ernesto VARGAS; (Signed) Mr. David ESCOBAR GALINDO; (Signed) Col. Juan MARTINEZ VARELA; (Signed) Mr. Abelardo TORRES; (Signed) Mr. Rafael HERNAN CONTRERAS;
  
  Representing the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional: (Signed) Cmdr. Schafik HANDAL; (Signed) Cmdr. Francisco JOVEL ; (Signed) Cmdr. Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN; (Signed) Cmdr. Eduardo SANCHO; (Signed) Cmdr. Joaquin VILLALOBOS

• Third parties

  (Signed) Alvaro DE SOTO, Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Description

  Parties declared they had reached definitive agreements which would put the armed conflict to an end. Agreement reached on all technical and military aspects relating to separation of warring parties and cessation of the armed conflict, including end to FMLN military structure and reintegration of its members into civil, political and institutional life. Cessation of armed conflict to take effect on 1 February 1992 and to conclude on 31 October 1992. Further meeting scheduled to negotiate timetable for implementing agreements with Final Peace Agreements to be signed on 16 January 1992. Declaration that the parties have completed negotiations on all the areas laid out in the Caracas Agenda; further meeting scheduled for parties to negotiate timeframe for implementation

• Agreement document

  SV_911231_NewYorkAct.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

New York Act

The Government of El Salvador and the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) hereby declare that they have reached definitive agreements which, combined with those previously signed at San Jose, Mexico City and New York, complete the negotiations on all substantive items of the Caracas Agenda and the New York "Compressed Negotiations".

Their implementation will put a final end to the Salvadorian armed conflict.

An agreement has also been reached on all technical and military aspects relating to the separation of the warring parties and the cessation of the armed conflict, which includes the end of the military structure of the FMLN and the reintegration of its members, within a framework of full legality, into the civil, political and institutional life of the country.

The parties have also agreed that the cessation of the armed conflict shall take effect formally on 1 February 1992 and shall conclude on 31 October 1992.

A further meeting between the parties has been scheduled for 5 January 1992 to negotiate the timetable for implementing the agreements and the procedure for ending the military structure of the FMLN and reintegrating its members, within a framework of full legality, into the civil, political and institutional life of the country.

Such negotiations must be successfully concluded by 10 January 1992 at the latest.

Otherwise, the parties undertake to accept, by 14 January 1992 at the latest, a formula for resolving outstanding issues to be proposed to them by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The Final Peace Agreements will be signed at Mexico City on 16 January 1992.

The parties undertake to preserve the atmosphere necessary for maintaining and expanding the unilateral decisions which they have taken in order to avoid all military activity.

New York, 31 December 1991

Representing the Government of El Salvador:

(Signed) Mr. Oscar SANTAMARIA

(Signed) Col.

Mauricio Ernesto VARGAS

(Signed) Mr. David ESCOBAR GALINDO

(Signed) Col.

Juan MARTINEZ VARELA

(Signed) Mr. Abelardo TORRES

(Signed) Mr. Rafael HERNAN CONTRERAS

Representing the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional:

(Signed) Cmdr.

Schafik HANDAL

(Signed) Cmdr.

Francisco JOVEL

(Signed) Cmdr.

Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN

(Signed) Cmdr.

Eduardo SANCHO

(Signed) Cmdr.

Joaquin VILLALOBOS

(Signed) Alvaro DE SOTO

Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations