Weekly Report - 23 February 2017 (WR-17-07)

The Colombian government expressed its “surprise” this week at a letter written by Jean Arnault, the head of the United Nations special mission in the country, saying that the construction of the 26 camps accommodating guerrillas from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) would not be completed until the end of March, and mooting the postponement of the disarmament and demobilisation phase of the peace process from 1 March until then. The foreign minister, María Ángela Holguín, and the government’s high commissioner for peace, Sergio Jaramillo, responded to Arnault’s letter, which was leaked to the press, by stressing the need to stick to the deadline of 1 June for the completion of the Farc’s disarmament.

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