The People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force - FARC, the party created by the former Colombian guerrilla movement after the signature of the Havana Peace Agreement in 2016, has called on the international community to join efforts to save the peace process. 

The FARC National Political Council said in a statement that while it ratifies its “firmest commitment to the Agreement, we call on the whole society, especially the youth, to get together in the different scenarios so to reflect and agree on specific tasks about the challenges and commitments that the construction of a stable and lasting peace for the country impose on us”.

Meeting to discuss the latest developments, the FARC Political Council analysed the very delicate phase the peace process is in. 

“In the middle of this uncertain panorama, - the FARC said - and the electoral debate in course, the issue of the construction and consolidation of a stable and lasting peace acquires transcendental importance”. 
The FARC underlined that this is “not about complying or failing the FARC; the agreements signed between the insurgency and the State are much more than a negotiation between the two parties, at stake is the future of the country and therefore the future of next generations, of our destiny as a nation”.

While the FARC has complied with all that was required of it, the same cannot be said of the Colombian State, which in fact has complied with almost nothing, and what’s more has been diluting and delaying compliance of the Agreement to serve mean political interests. 

Colombia has voted last March to renew the Parliament and the results have actually rewarded the right wing parties, the war camp. 

At the end of May, Colombians are again called to vote, this time to elect their new president, and again things don’t look good with the right wing candidate ahead in opinion polls.  

To add fuel on fire, not only the Agreement is not been implemented but indeed every day there are new attacks on the peace process and the FARC. 

The the most serious of all these attacks is that aimed at undermining legal security, now transformed into a permanent threat on the head of the former-guerrillas. “We are faced - said the FARC - with set ups invented by the Prosecutor Office together with the North American agencies, as it appears evident in the case involving Jesús Santrich as well as recent press news that intend to involve another leader of our party and elected senator, Iván Márquez, in drug trafficking activities”.

The FARC has called on the international community to help saving the peace process which has put an end to 50 years of war.