Comunicado N°1: Mecanismo Único de Información
- Country/entity
-
Colombia
- Region
-
Americas
- Agreement name
- Comunicado N°1: Mecanismo Único de Información
- Date
- 9 Jan 1999
- Agreement status
- Multiparty signed/agreed
- Interim arrangement
- Yes
- Agreement/conflict level
- Intrastate/intrastate conflict
- Stage
- Pre-negotiation/process
- Conflict nature
- Government
- Peace process
- Colombia III - Arango
- Parties
- Gobierno Nacional, FARC-EP
- Third parties
- -
- Description
- This document is about the communication with and of the media of the negotiations and it details the next meeting (date, time and place).
- Agreement document
- CO_990109_COMUNICADO N1 MECANISMO ÚNICO DE INFORMACION - tr.pdf (opens in new tab) | Download PDF
- Agreement document (original language)
- CO_990109_COMUNICADO N1 MECANISMO ÚNICO DE INFORMACION.pdf (opens in new tab)
Groups
- Children/youth
No specific mention.
- Disabled persons
No specific mention.
- Elderly/age
No specific mention.
- Migrant workers
No specific mention.
- Racial/ethnic/national group
No specific mention.
- Religious groups
No specific mention.
- Indigenous people
No specific mention.
- Other groups
No specific mention.
- Refugees/displaced persons
No specific mention.
- Social class
No specific mention.
Gender
- Women, girls and gender
No specific mention.
- Men and boys
No specific mention.
- LGBTI
No specific mention.
- Family
No specific mention.
State definition
- Nature of state (general)
- Page 1, Article 1,
To affirm to all Colombians our irrenunciable desire to contribute to building a fair,
peaceful and socially just country with sustainable peace, clarifying that we face a long and sensitive process that will require collective support to bring about a new reality
through profound social, economic and political changes. - State configuration
No specific mention.
- Self determination
No specific mention.
- Referendum
No specific mention.
- State symbols
No specific mention.
- Independence/secession
No specific mention.
- Accession/unification
No specific mention.
- Border delimitation
No specific mention.
- Cross-border provision
No specific mention.
Governance
- Political institutions (new or reformed)
No specific mention.
- Elections
No specific mention.
- Electoral commission
No specific mention.
- Political parties reform
No specific mention.
- Civil society
No specific mention.
- Traditional/religious leaders
No specific mention.
- Public administration
No specific mention.
- Constitution
No specific mention.
Power sharing
- Political power sharing
No specific mention.
- Territorial power sharing
No specific mention.
- Economic power sharing
No specific mention.
- Military power sharing
No specific mention.
Human rights and equality
- Human rights/RoL general
No specific mention.
- Bill of rights/similar
No specific mention.
- Treaty incorporation
No specific mention.
- Civil and political rights
No specific mention.
- Socio-economic rights
No specific mention.
Rights related issues
- Citizenship
No specific mention.
- Democracy
No specific mention.
- Detention procedures
No specific mention.
- Media and communication
- Rights related issues→Media and communication→Media rolesPage 1, Article 3,
To ensure the media provides objective information on the progress of the peace
process, request that it bases reports on these communications, avoiding interpretations
that could damage the talks. - Mobility/access
No specific mention.
- Protection measures
No specific mention.
- Other
No specific mention.
Rights institutions
- NHRI
No specific mention.
- Regional or international human rights institutions
No specific mention.
Justice sector reform
- Criminal justice and emergency law
No specific mention.
- State of emergency provisions
No specific mention.
- Judiciary and courts
No specific mention.
- Prisons and detention
No specific mention.
- Traditional Laws
No specific mention.
Socio-economic reconstruction
- Development or socio-economic reconstruction
No specific mention.
- National economic plan
No specific mention.
- Natural resources
No specific mention.
- International funds
No specific mention.
- Business
No specific mention.
- Taxation
No specific mention.
- Banks
No specific mention.
Land, property and environment
- Land reform/rights
No specific mention.
- Pastoralist/nomadism rights
No specific mention.
- Cultural heritage
No specific mention.
- Environment
No specific mention.
- Water or riparian rights or access
No specific mention.
Security sector
- Security Guarantees
No specific mention.
- Ceasefire
No specific mention.
- Police
No specific mention.
- Armed forces
No specific mention.
- DDR
No specific mention.
- Intelligence services
No specific mention.
- Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forces
No specific mention.
- Withdrawal of foreign forces
No specific mention.
- Corruption
No specific mention.
- Crime/organised crime
No specific mention.
- Drugs
No specific mention.
- Terrorism
No specific mention.
Transitional justice
- Transitional justice general
No specific mention.
- Amnesty/pardon
No specific mention.
- Courts
No specific mention.
- Mechanism
No specific mention.
- Prisoner release
No specific mention.
- Vetting
No specific mention.
- Victims
No specific mention.
- Missing persons
No specific mention.
- Reparations
No specific mention.
- Reconciliation
No specific mention.
Implementation
- UN signatory
No specific mention.
- Other international signatory
No specific mention.
- Referendum for agreement
No specific mention.
- International mission/force/similar
No specific mention.
- Enforcement mechanism
No specific mention.
- Related cases
No specific mention.
- Source
- Diálogo, negociación y ruptura con las FARC-EP y con el ELN, Biblioteca de la Paz – 1998-2000, Fundación Cultura Democrática, Ed. Álvaro Villarraga Sarmiento, Bogotá D.C., 2009 (book V) p. 167
COMMUNICATION NO.
1:
SINGLE INFORMATION MECHANISM
La Machaca, San Vicente del Caguán, 9 January 1999
The spokespeople for the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército Popular, FARC–EP), present in La Machaca in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán in the department of Caquetá on 9 January 1999, agree the following:
To affirm to all Colombians our irrenunciable desire to contribute to building a fair, peaceful and socially just country with sustainable peace, clarifying that we face a long and sensitive process that will require collective support to bring about a new reality through profound social, economic and political changes.
To establish a single mechanism for providing the public with information on the progress of the talks by issuing joint written communications to be released after each session.
To ensure the media provides objective information on the progress of the peace process, request that it bases reports on these communications, avoiding interpretations that could damage the talks.
To convene the next working session for Monday, 11 January 1999 at 09:00 in La Machaca in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán.
For the national government:
FABIO VALENCIA COSSIO
MARIA EMMA MEJÍA VÉLEZ
NICANOR RESTREPO SANTAMARÍA
RODOLFO ESPINOSA MEOLA
For FARC–EP:
RAÚL REYES
JOAQUÍN GÓMEZ
FABIÁN RAMÍREZ