Dialogue for Peace in Colombia Continues focusing on Agriculture
The peace talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People''s Army (FARC-EP) and the Government of the South American country continued in this capital today focus on the issue of land.
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The peace talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People''s Army (FARC-EP) and the Government of the South American country continued in this capital today focus on the issue of land.

That case, considered key in the solution to decades of armed conflict, is the first in a six-point agenda that also includes guarantees for citizen participation and the solution to the problem of illicit drugs, among others.

The day before, the insurgency delegation urged the government of President Juan Manuel Santos to stop stigma and persistent persecution against areas of Farmers Reserves and their leaders.

In a statement read by the guerrilla member Rubén Zamora at the Havana International Conference Center, permanent headquarters of the talks with the Executive, the insurgency considered that the creation processes of Farmers Reserve Zone in Colombia should be considered a progress for peace.

Meanwhile, he adeed, the Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo, fully involved the rural population in the military confrontation by raising criminalizing suspicion, demonize farmers and insinuate their organizational forms as a threat to the homeland.

Moreover, the guerrilla commander Andres Paris alluded, in declarations to Prensa Latina, the proposals submitted by the FARC-EP, according to the comprehensive agricultural development, which "as he considered-are specific initiatives to solve problems of the Colombian countryside.