The Director of Interinstitutional Management of the Victims Unit intervened in the "Summit for Peace" in Bogotá, in which PDET spaces were proposed for the city and its neighboring municipality Soacha.

"Peace is consolidated in the territories and the Unit plays a fundamental role in the consolidation of peace," said Aura Helena Acevedo, director of Inter-institutional Management of the entity, during the "Summit for territorial peace with local and regional authorities", carried out in the Mayor's Office of Bogotá.

According to Acevedo, all the strategies of the Unit “are set up so that at this time of planning, the entities of the territorial order establish in their Development plans, actions in favor of  victims within the framework of public policy”.

"We also know that these actions will be reflected over the years, according to that proper planning we do," he noted.

The official explained that spaces such as the Peace Summit "allow interacting with government entities and allow us to understand that we should talk, that we should coordinate and that we should work as a team."

For his part, the High Councilor for Stabilization, Emilio Archila, highlighted the proposal of the mayor, Claudia López, in the sense of proposing the creation of two PDET areas for the capital, one rural in the town of Sumapaz and another urban, between Bogotá and Soacha, based on the guidelines of the national government.

“In what refers to what she called the PDET for Bogotá and the PDET for Sumapaz, it is also good news. It is clear that the methodology that we have used in the Government of President Duque to go to the communities, ask them what their needs are, then use sophisticated planning instruments to be able to meet the communities and focus resources, is having a wide diffusion and welcome” He explained.

Archila highlighted the announcements of the District Administration, in particular, the one that pointed out that “the implementation of the agreements must be done following the guidelines of the national Government and that is a support to the policy of Peace with Legality of President Iván Duque”.

During the “Summit for Territorial Peace with local and regional authorities” in Bogotá, Humberto de La Calle and Rodrigo Londoño, former negotiators of the Peace Agreement, also participated; Francisco de Roux, president of the Truth, Justice and Reparation Commission, and Carlos Ruiz Massieu, head of the UN Verification Mission, among others.

(End/AMA/LMY)