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Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the members of the Episcopal Council for Peace (CEP), to analyze the prospects of the peace process with the guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, was held yesterday, April 21, in Bogota. According to the note sent to Fides, the meeting was attended by the President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, who is also President of the National Conciliation Commission (CCN), a group of Archbishops and Bishops from different regions of the Country where people live the daily plight of the social and armed conflict, and the High Commissioner for Peace, Sergio Jaramillo.
The members of the CEP analyzed, from a regional perspective, the situation of the negotiation process between the government and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The new point on the agenda was the study of the situation of the talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN).
According to what was reported by the local media in recent days, the path of the peace process had been questioned because of a criminal act carried out by the FARC, in which 11 soldiers were killed (see Fides 16/04/2015).
Only yesterday the official report of the Colombian army was published, where we learn that the bombing ordered by President Santos in the conflict zone, caused six deaths in the ranks of the guerrillas.
Yesterday evening President Santos sent a message to the FARC, saying that now "the decision to get serious is in your hands. It is time to prove that peace is what you also desire". (CE) (Agenzia Fides 22/04/2015)
