FARC, Colombian Government To Sign Peace Agreement

Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos has announced that the signing date for the final peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will be on 26 September.

It has taken 52 years of heartache and anguish, which has torn a nation asunder, for it to finally be whole again.

More than quarter of a million are dead, 45,000 thousand missing, seven million displaced. President Juan Manuel Santos put the initialing ceremony into perspective by calling it the most important event of his life.

Within one hundred and eighty days of the inked accord, the FARC will have handed over all their weapons over to United Nations Peacekeepers.

Source : QNA