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Petro believes that the regional fronts of the guerrillas should be in the negotiation with the ELN
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, considered this Saturday that the regional fronts of that guerrillas should participate in the peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN), such as the one that operates in the department of Nariño (southwest) and that has unleashed a crisis in the dialogues.
“Without disred of the regional dialogue to build a Nariño in peace that has already begun, my Government maintains the established national table as the stage for peace dialogues with the ELN. It is important that that table has members of the different regional fronts of the ELN to move from dialogue to definitive negotiation,” Petro said on social network X.
Last February, after extending the bilateral ceasefire for six months, during the sixth cycle of dialogues in Havana, the ELN announced that the dialogues were entering a freezing phase, something that was solved days later.
This happened because the guerrillas were opposed by the announcement of the governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar, that regional dialogues were going to be held where a front that the ELN said had been infiltrated by state agents was allegedly also involved.
Despite the setbacks, the delegations of the Government and the ELN spoke on Friday in Caracas with representatives of the guarantor countries and companions of the peace negotiations, before the extraordinary meeting that will begin this Saturday, the press team of the armed group assured EFE.
The ELN asked this week for an “extraordinary meeting” instead of the celebration of a normal cycle due to the “critical state” of the peace process that, in the opinion of that armed group, is plunged into a “freezing.”
The Government delegation, led by Vera Grabe, traveled to Caracas on Wednesday, while the guerrilla team arrived on Thursday, led by the head of negotiations, Israel Ramírez Pineda, alias ‘Pablo Beltrán’, and also by the top commander of the ELN, Eliécer Herlinto Chamorro, alias ‘Antonio García’, who is not part of the negotiating delegation.
At the meeting, according to the Government delegation, issues on the agenda will be addressed, such as participation, ceasefire and territorial transformations, as well as substantive decisions on the future of the process.
The negotiations, which were restarted in November 2022 after four years of freezing, have gone through several ups and downs, but both sides maintain a ceasefire that will be in force until next August 3.
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Pro-independence Humza Yousaf resigns as chief minister of Scotland
The independence-pro-partner Humza Yousaf announced on Monday his resignation as chief minister of Scotland, after his coalition partners, the Greens, decided to withdraw their support for the Executive.
Yousaf, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), appeared at Bute House – the official residence of the Scottish leader – to declare that he is leaving the leadership of his party, which directly implies his resignation as leader of Scotland after 13 months at the head of the regional government.
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People are already dying from diseases in Gaza and not only from the bombings, denounces MSF
The quasi-total collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip, devastated after more than 200 days of war with Israel and more than 34,400 deaths; in addition to the shortage of drinking water, overcrowding and lack of medicines make many Gazans die from easily treatable diseases.
“How many children have already died of pneumonia in overflowing hospitals?” asks Mari Carmen Viñoles, head of the Emergency Unit of Doctors Without Borders, an organization present in the Palestinian enclave and which this Monday publishes a report entitled: ‘Silent deaths’.
“And the deadly consequences of the closure of renal dialysis units in the hospitals attacked? These are the silent deaths of Gaza that are not reported,” Viñoles adds.
According to the report, based on medical data and patient testimonies, the current living conditions in Rafah, where more than a million displaced Palestinians take refuge, are not conducive to survival.
The UN coordinator for humanitarian aid and reconstruction of Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, warned on Monday that the reconstruction efforts of the devastated Gaza Strip are “tied” to the two-state solution, although she warned that the Palestinians “can’t wait.”
“It needs to be said that reconstruction efforts, not only politically but from an investment perspective, are all tied to political parameters: the two-state solution,” Kaag said in a panel on Gaza at the special meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is held in Riyadh.
Likewise, the head of the UN warned that from a humanitarian point of view “civilians cannot be asked to wait” for the creation of a Palestinian State to begin the reconstruction of the enclave and recalled that more than one million children are not being enrolled in school because of the war.
According to Kaag, schools are being used as shelters, contagious diseases represent a threat as there is a shortage of water and lack of sanitation and insecurity prevents the beginning to rebuild the devastated Strip.
“We need to act now, and this cannot wait for a political solution (…) We have failed the Palestinians countless times,” insisted Kaag, who added that “political will is what is required.”
On the other hand, he called for a “paradigm shift” in the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza, and assured that it is not only necessary to increase the volume of assistance, but also to expand the type of products that are distributed to the population, such as medicines.
“We are no longer counting trucks. We are seeing what aid is being distributed and what kind of assistance reaches the population,” Kaag said.
The diplomat recalled that the distribution of aid still faces “a number of obstacles,” such as “behavior at Israeli checkpoints,” something she said “must change.”
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The United States says that Israel has made an “extraordinarily generous” proposal for a truce to Hamas
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, assured on Monday in Riyadh that the Palestinian group Hamas has in its hands an “extraordinarily generous” proposal by Israel to agree on a truce in the Gaza Strip, but that it has to decide “quickly.”
A delegation from Hamas holds this Monday “extended talks” with officials of the security agencies of Egypt, about the latest proposal to achieve a ceasefire in the enclave.
This has been reported by Egyptian sources cited by the Egyptian television channel Al QaheraNews, close to the intelligence services of the North African country, which have also revealed that the amounts of aid to civilians in Gaza “will increase from next week,” without specifying more details.
Egyptian sources, who asked for anonymity, said on Sunday that a delegation from Hamas, headed by the member of the political bureau Khalil al-The Hague, planned to deliver its response to the latest proposal for a truce in Gaza on Monday.
The visit of the Hamas delegation to Egypt coincides with the arrival in Saudi Arabia on Monday of US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on his seventh visit to the Middle East since the beginning of the war in Gaza, last October.
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