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Colombia is experiencing a period of new expectations due to the total peace policy of newly elected President Gustavo Petro, anchored in the implementation of the Final Agreement with the former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia‑Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council today.

Delegates of Colombia's government and the nation's largest remaining guerrilla group met on Tuesday and announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018.

At least 10 armed groups in Colombia, including former members of the FARC rebels who reject a peace deal and the Clan del Golfo crime gang, have agreed to participate in unilateral ceasefires, the government said on Wednesday.

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Guerrilla leader Ivan Marquez, who initially signed a peace deal with the state before taking up arms again three years later, has said he is ready to negotiate once again, a top government official said on Thursday.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Saturday proposed a multilateral ceasefire with illegal armed groups that agree to negotiate their demobilization and disarmament.

President Gustavo Petro, an outspoken critic of the so-called War on Drugs, previously ordered police to focus their attention on known drug trafficking hubs like seaports and certain land border regions.

Just one week after his inauguration, Colombian President Gustavo Petro sent 52 generals into retirement. The biggest sweep in Colombia's history is aimed at putting together a corruption-free brass.

A pamphlet signed by the AGC announced an immediate unilateral ceasefire by Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization on Sunday.In the online announcement, the paramilitary organization said that they had “declared a unilateral cessation of hostilities as an expression of goodwill” to the government of President Gustavo Petro, who took office on Sunday.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that peace talks with guerrilla group ELN “are about to be resumed.” Before taking office on Sunday, the president had already said that he would continue the talks that were suspended by former President Ivan Duque