Government of Reconciliation and National Unity
Unida Nicaragua Triunfa
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Managua, Nicaragua
PRESS RELEASE
FROM THE DELEGATION OF GRUN
TO THE NEGOTIATION TABLE
Friday, April 12, 2019
The Delegation of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity, to the Negotiation Table, reiterates and ratifies to our People and the International Community it´s unwavering will and commitment to continue at the Negotiating Table working for National Understanding and Peace in our Nicaragua. As is known, we have advanced, agreed, approved and signed the following:
1) Roadmap.
2) Negotiation Agenda.
3) Agreement to Strengthen Rights and Guarantees.
4) Agreement on the release of prisoners with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
5) Acceptance of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States to resume the work related to the Project of Reforms and Strengthening the Electoral Process, by Agreement of the Negotiation Table.
6) Scheduling of Agenda items between March 25 and 29, which contains:
• Strengthen citizen rights and guarantees.
• Truth, justice, reparation and not repetition.
• Mechanism of implementation of the agreements.
• Strengthen democracy and electoral reforms to carry out electoral processes.
• A call to the international community to suspend sanctions to facilitate Nicaragua's right to human, economic and social development, favoring the most vulnerable sectors. As well as making international efforts to obtain support for its implementation.
• Review, approval and signing of the Final Protocol.
The agenda items that are still under negotiation pending approval at the Negotiation Table.
Between February 27 and April 5 they held 21 sessions at INCAE; 2 sessions in the Apostolic Nunciature. On April 8, 9 and 10 there were 3 sessions with 2 representatives of each Delegation in the Apostolic Nunciature.
In total, 26 Negotiation Meetings were held, in which the outstanding presence of the Witnesses, Companions and International Guarantors, Apostolic Nuncio Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, Representative of His Holiness Pope Francis in Nicaragua and Mr. Luis Ángel Rosadilla, Representatives of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States.
The delegations at the negotiating table held two working meetings with the International Committee of the Red Cross to advance in the conciliation of the list of detainees in the context of the events that took place on April 18, 2018. The Technical Liaisons from each Delegation have carried out 2 work sessions to review the list of detainees mentioned above, to compare and reconcile the information.
Likewise, by the Will and Commitment of the GRUN (Government of Reconciliation and National Unity), up to 200 people have been released to date and are in Family Cohabitation System.
On April 10, the Delegation of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity presented to the Representation of the ACJD a proposed Agreement on the Return of Nicaraguans who left the country in the context of the events that took place on April 18 of 2018. This proposal, as established by them (ACJD) will be analyzed at the table today, Friday, April 12.
It is the GRUN's Will to continue working to achieve Consensus and Agreement on Agenda items approved in favor of Peace, Understanding and the Common Good of the Nicaraguan People. The GRUN is committed to the Responsible fulfillment of all the agreements reached at the Negotiation Table.
We make ours the message of His Holiness Pope Francis, encouraging us to find a peaceful solution for the Common Good of All Nicaraguans.
Managua, Friday, April 12, 2019
Delegation of the Government of Reconciliation
and National Unity
before the Negotiation Table