• Country/entity

  Colombia
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Acuerdo entre el Gobierno y el Ejercito Revolucionario Guevarista (ERG)

• Date

  2 Aug 2008

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Colombian Conflict (1964 - ) )

• Stage

  Framework/substantive - partial

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Colombia IV - Uribe

• Parties

  Colombian National Government and the Guevarista Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario Guevarista, ERG).

• Third parties

  Witnesses, Pastoral–Social Director, Diocese of Quibdó and the Pastoral–Social Director, Diocese of Quibdó.

• Description

  A statement of commitment to demobilise and decommission by the ERG and a statement of commitment by the Government to guarantee the reinsertion programme for ERG members. Moreover, the high commission for peace will take over the zone occupied by the ERG and help with the development of the zone in the name of the state.

• Agreement document

  CO_080802_Acuerdo Gobierno Nacional y Ejercito Revolucionario Guevarista-tr.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 BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE GUEVARISTA

REVOLUTIONARY ARMY

2 August 2008

The High Commissioner for Peace, Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez, representing the national

government, and Lizardo Sánchez Caro and Efraín Sánchez Caro, as representative members

of the Guevarista Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario Guevarista, ERG), recognised

by Presidential Resolution No.

262, 2008, have reached the following agreement:

1. All ERG members undertake to demobilise, surrender their arms and re-join civil life.

2. The process will take place in the framework of Laws 1,106 (2006) and 975 (2005).

The

demobilised members who give their consent and members of the organisation who are

deprived of liberty when demobilisation takes place will be submitted to the Law for

Justice and Peace by the national government.

3. The national government assumes logistic and operational responsibility for

implementing the Temporary Concentration Zone for the concentration, demobilisation

and disarmament of ERG members.

4. Demobilised ERG members will receive the benefits set out in the Programme for the

Reincorporation into Civil Life of the Office of the President of the Republic.

5. The national government, via the High Commissioner for Peace, will make the respective

arrangements with the civil and military authorities to ensure the full presence of the

state in the area in which ERG was operating.

6. The national government, via the High Commissioner for Peace, will conduct an

evaluation with the communities in the area where the concentration and

demobilisation takes place to prioritise state resources to ensure the peaceful

development of the region.

7. The Temporary Concentration Zone will be established in Alto Guaduas in the

municipality of Carmen de Atrato in the department of Chocó.

The zone will have a

duration of one month from the date on which the respective resolution is issued.

8. The dialogue process, signing of agreements, disarmament and demobilisation of ERG

will be carried out with full transparency and the public will be kept informed.

Signed in witness whereof in Alto Guaduas in the municipality of Carmen de Atrato on 2

August 2008.

LUIS CARLOS RESTREPO RAMÍREZ, High Commissioner for Peace

LIZARDO SÁNCHEZ CARO, Representative Member of ERG

EFRAÍN SÁNCHEZ CARO Representative Member of ERG

FATHER JESÚS ALBEIRO PARRA S., Pastoral–Social Director, Diocese of Quibdó, witness

VICTOR RAUL MOSQUERA G., Regional Ombudsperson of Chocó, witness