12-month mission will monitor ceasefire and demobilisation of FarcOptimism that March deadline for overall agreement may be within reachColombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group maintain marked another milestone in their rapidly advancing peace talks, with a joint request that the United Nations establish an international observer mission to monitor a disarmament process that could in a matter of weeks end Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla clash.
Negotiators for the two sides announced at peace talks in Havana that the 12-month mission would be made up of unarmed observers from Latin American and Caribbean nations. It would monitor adherence to an eventual bilateral ceasefire and resolve disputes that emerge from the expected demobilisation of some 7000 fighters belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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Source: theguardian.com