The initiative was approved in the third debate in the First Committee of the Senate on September 2 and only has pending the debate and approval in the Plenary of the corporation to pass to presidential approval.

Two months after the approval of the bill that seeks to extend for 10 years Law 1448 of 2011 (Victims and Land Restitution Law), the director of the Unit for the Comprehensive Reparation of Victims, Ramón Alberto Rodríguez Andrade, called on Congress to process this initiative in the last debate.

“I call on the Congress of the Republic to expedite the processing of this project. We have the last debate in plenary on this initiative and what all the benches are looking for and what has happened during the legislative process is that they have always unanimously agreed to carry out the extension for 10 years and that is what is expected", Rodríguez explained.

The director said that the entity works hand in hand with the Department of National Planning and the Ministry of Finance "to guarantee that Conpes finances these 10 years that the law is being extended".

Rodríguez reiterated that, by approving this project, "those nine million victims of conflict are given peace of mind". "What we seek is to strengthen, not be regressive in the rights acquired by the victims, and as the president has also requested, to advance in the comprehensive reparation of these Colombians who today are in the Single Registry of Victims", ​​he said.

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