2023-07-12 01:03:37
The document, which would be signed in the next few hours and which was subject to comments from the public, indicates that once a process of dialogue, rapprochement or conversation with an armed group begins, the arrest warrants that have been issued or may be suspended. issued against the representatives and spokespersons of the armed organizations.
According to the decree, the national government will notify the competent judicial authorities of the start, termination or suspension of the dialogues and the signing of agreements. Additionally, it will certify the participation of the people who act as representatives or spokespersons.
Faced with the work of the Attorney General of the Nation, it only indicates that he is called to suspend “outright” the arrest warrants that have been issued or are issued against members of armed organizations or crime structures high impact
The decree even gives free rein to the representatives of the organizations to leave the country, since the resolution that recognizes their status as a member or spokesperson “will be a sufficient document for purposes of leaving the country.”
Just this Monday, President Gustavo Petro signed a resolution in which he extends the recognition to five members of the dissidents of the Central General Staff of the Farc, with whom the Executive advances peace approaches. They are Luis Carlos Pinilla Cortez, Renzo Alirio Martínez, Robinson de Jesús González, Ramiro Pinzón Novoa and Walter Freddy Ruiz Montaño.
The total peace policy allows the national government to advance negotiations with organized armed groups outside the law. These are dialogues of a political nature in which peace agreements would be reached. However, it is also empowered to approach and talk with organized armed groups or high-impact organized armed crime structures, in order to achieve their submission to justice and their dismantling.
It is established that, once a process of dialogue, rapprochement, conversation, signing of agreements or subscription of terms of submission to justice has begun, the Prosecutor’s Office must suspend the arrest warrants that have been issued or are issued against representatives or spokespersons of the organizations.
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