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January 29th, 2016 
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nsnbc : The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples’ Army (FARC-EP) asked the European Union (EU) to removed from the EU’s terror list. The Colombian government and the FARC-EP are expected to sign a final peace accord in 2016. A bilateral ceasefire has been in place since January 1, 2016.
Iván Márquez (archives)
The FARC-EP and the Colombian government have held peace talks in the Cuban capital Havana since 2012. One of the guarantors of the talks is Norway. The FARC-EP and the Colombian government have reached several landmark agreements on land reform, illicit drugs, and political participation after the signing of the final peace accord.
FARC-EP Chief Negotiator Ivan Marquez has asked the European Union to end its designation of the FARC-EP to remove the FARC-EP from its list over terrorist organizations.
The EU designated the FARC-EP as a terrorist organization in June 2002, in the wake of the controversial and still unsolved terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, and the launch of the so-called Global War on Terror. The FARC-EP had no connection with the still highly debated and questionable 9/11 attacks.
Both FARC-EP Chief Negotiator Ivan Marquez and the Peace Commissioner of the Colombian government, Sergio Jaramillo, spoke before a European Parliament session through a video link that was set up between Brussels, Bogota and Havana, Cuba where peace talks continue. The EU designated the FARC-EP as a terrorist organization, arguing that it used the strategy of terrorism, and because of human rights violations.
Marquez stressed that the FARC-EP and the Colombian government had adhered to the bilateral ceasefire since January 1, 2016, and that the FARC-EP was being transformed into a non-violent political organization. Marquez told EU MPs that:
“The right and consequent thing to do is the delete the FARC from the list of terrorist organizations with the same swiftness with which we were included”.
The FARC-EP considers its designation as a terrorist organization as an obstacle for the road to peace and the transformation into a non-violent political organization said Marques. The final peace accord, scheduled to be signed in 2016 will end 51 years of civil war in Colombia. Both the FARC-EP and the government agree that the main threat to security in Colombia today arises from ultra-right-wing neo-paramilitaries including Los Urabenos. The Colombian government has also initiated peace talks with the second-largest left-wing paramilitary group, the ELN.
The United States also designates the FARC-EP as a terrorist organization. Ironically, this is so even though documents revealed by the late LA police officer and journalist Michael C. Ruppert show that the CIA contacted the FARC-EP, asking whether they would like to invest their money at Wall Street.
CH/L – nsnbc 29.01.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/01/29/colombias-farc-asks-eu-to-be-taken-off-terror-list/
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