This was confirmed by Ramón Rodríguez, after the work carried out at the Peace Table of the Great National Conversation, carried out in the capital of the country, in which the extension of the Victims Law was a central issue.

The strategies that allow to consolidate the attention to all the victims of the country through the project that proposes to extend the Victims Law for 10 more years, was the essential theme of the Peace Table of the Great National Conversation, held at Luis Ángel Arango library of Bogotá, according to Ramón Rodríguez, director of the Victims Unit.

“The main agreement is that we have to take advantage of this opportunity to extend this project. The extension of the law must bring adjustments that allow us to strengthen the care of victims”, Rodríguez said.

In his opinion, “what is wanted is to strengthen the attention to victims and the way to do it is to know where it can be done by identifying difficulties”.

“We can do it through this draft bill that will be presented in the month of March before Congress of the Republic”, he stressed.

"What was done was a specific Victims table, reviewing the commitments that had been acquired and the proposals that had come out at the first table, to land them and reach an agreement", Rodriguez reaffirmed.

On the other hand, Orlando Burgos, coordinator of the Executive Committee of the National Table of Effective Participation of Victims, described the work carried out as productive.

“We managed to land prioritized issues on the aspirations that we have the victims on the dialogues that are being carried out with the Presidency and we believe that the route we take will have to be definitive and we hope that the national government will take it into account to enter a stage of consultation and the issues can be included in the reforms that can be executed and carried out in the face of social expectations that all victims have”, Burgos noted.

For his part, Andrés Castro, director of the Land Restitution Unit, said that in the meeting there was “an active participation of different organizations of victims and the Truth Commission”. "The contributions have been significant to make adjustments and improvements in the implementation of this public policy that is directly related to peace agreements and reconciliation", he added.

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