The National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas confirmed this Friday that He freed all the people he kidnapped in Colombia. “For economic reasons,” the Colombian government’s chief peace negotiator, Vera Grabe, told a newspaper on Wednesday. EFE.

This was reported by the Central Command (COCE) of the ELN, which said in a statement that “it gave instructions for the release of all persons deprived of liberty for economic reasons, this was reviewed in all structures” of the guerrillas and “these instructions were fully respected. “entirely”.

“Thus, we compliance with the conditions of unilateral and temporary suspension announced February 5 in Cuba. We deliver to the country and the international community, We hope that the Colombian government will also implement everything related to this case,” the information added.

Grabe said on Wednesday that during negotiations in Mexico last December, “when the kidnapping discussion began,” the government accepted a list of 26 people held by the armed group for economic purposes, with cases verified by a verification mechanism. bilateral ceasefire with the ANO.

The ELN then released “all but three”, who were released after the next round, held in Havana in January, which extended the bilateral ceasefire by 180 days, and the guerrillas committed “unilaterally and temporarily suspend economic withholdings”what do they call abduction of civilians.

In February last year, the partisans assured that Dialogues were “in crisis” for “actions that violate agreements at the negotiating table,” which they have been carrying out for 15 months.

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However, Grabe said, this has already happened “decided” at an extraordinary meeting in Cuba.

“In this case, we solved this problem, we found ways, we made commitments… And something very important in this emergency meeting that we held is that the activity continues,” Grabe explained.

EFE