During the session, commitments were agreed upon that will allow for decisive progress in the peace process for the benefit of communities and the country. This is not a classic peace process, but a socio-legal dialogue aimed at submission to justice and the dismantling of the group's illegal economies, within the framework of the Executive's 'total peace' policy. The parties stated that with this meeting, 'the situation of suspension of the conversation that had been announced by the Joint Staff of the EGC in previous days has been overcome.' On February 4, the Clan del Golfo announced a temporary suspension of dialogues after the government allegedly handed over to the United States the names of several drug trafficking bosses considered high-value targets, including its leader, Jobanis de Jesús Ávila, alias Chiquito Malo. The following day, the Government's Peace Commission assured that the negotiating table with the Clan del Golfo is in an 'advanced stage', despite this setback. Peace dialogues between the Colombian government and the Clan del Golfo, the country's largest criminal gang, are advancing according to the commitments made, after that illegal armed group announced at the beginning of the month the temporary suspension of contacts, the parties reported this Tuesday. The continuation of the dialogues was announced in a joint communiqué from the Working Group for this socio-legal negotiation of the Government with the Gaitanist Army of Colombia (EGC), as the Clan del Golfo calls itself. The parties met in Bogotá on February 9 at the invitation of the Group of Mediator Countries, made up of Qatar, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland, with the accompaniment of the Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organization of American States (MAPP/OAS) and the Colombian Episcopal Conference.
