THE
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RENEWED CONTACTS WITH THE ELN
Bogotá, D.C., March
30 , 2001 (ANCOL). -
The Deputy Commissioner
for Peace, Jorge Marío Eastman said today that conditions are favorable
for renewed contacts between the National Government and the insurgent
group, the Army for National Liberation (ELN).
While speaking to
journalists, Eastman said that they had advanced on the preparation for
the meeting, possibly this weekend, with the spokesmen for the guerrilla
group.
The idea, he explained,
is to ¨jumpstart¨ the peace process between the government and the ELN
to initiate negotiations."
We are waiting for
a meeting between the office of the High Commissioner for Peace and the
ELN, this weekend, to jumpstart the process with the subversive group",
he said.
According to Eastman,
now that the difficulties that made the temporary suspension between the
two parts have been overcome, the hour has come for concrete action.¨
All the obstacles
which upset the environment are better and smoothed over. Conditions exist
to sit down again at the table to dialogue and put concrete elements into
this process," he added.
Eastman said that
today the "Facilitation Commission" traveled to the South of Bolivar.