RPR Peace Mail_July 4-10

Abstract

On Monday, July 11th, President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree granting amnesty to 3,252 former FARC members currently in the transitional zones. The MM&V is currently locating and destroying the roughly 900 reported weapons caches of the FARC, with information in hand on an estimated 660 of those. The socioeconomic census of the FARC-EP in the transitional zones, which was a provision delineated in the final accord, was completed by the National University. On Monday, July 10th, the United Nations approved a second verification mission in Colombia. Six wounded in explosives attack by FARC-EP dissidents. Conversations continue on the possibility of an ELN-GoC ceasefire.