June 4, 2024

Exclusivo: Habla el expresidente Juan Manuel Santos sobre su carta a Naciones Unidas

Exclusivo: Habla el expresidente Juan Manuel Santos sobre su carta a Naciones Unidas
Spotify podcast player badge
RSS Feed podcast player badge
Spotify podcast player iconRSS Feed podcast player icon
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:06.200
In the WU the report of Colonel
with a very special guest, which will

2
00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:13.039
clarify the issue of the scope of
the peace agreement signed at the Teatro Colón

3
00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:20.359
in Bogotá, Daniel and former President
Juan Manuel Santos. Both welcome good morning

4
00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.440
July. This is today' s
Colonel report. Former President Juan Manuel Santos

5
00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:28.679
revealed in the last hours the contents
of a letter he sent to the Secretary

6
00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:33.679
- General of the United Nations,
Antonio Guterrez, on the peace agreement that

7
00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:38.679
he signed with the FARK and whose
copy is deposited in the Laon Security Council

8
00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.759
In order to understand the letter of
former President Santos, it is necessary to

9
00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:51.920
remember that the scandalistÁlvaro Leiva returned
to the elusive reflectors a few days ago,

10
00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.560
when he used the thesis that the
peace agreement with the FAR allows and

11
00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:00.520
further forces the former President, President
Forgiveness, Gustavo Petro, to summon a

12
00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:07.480
constituent Assembly. The sudden former Minister
Iba assures him that the binding authorization is

13
00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.879
in a paragraph of the introduction that
says I open Comillas, the Government of

14
00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:18.439
Colombia and the FARC EP in order
to further consolidate the bases on which it

15
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:25.319
will build peace and national reconciliation.
Once the approval procedure has been completed,

16
00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:32.519
all political and social movements and all
the other active forces in the country will

17
00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:38.760
be called upon to agree on a
great national political opening aimed at defining the

18
00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:45.480
institutional reforms and adjustments necessary to meet
the challenges that peace demands, putting a

19
00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:52.480
new framework of political and social coexistence
closes quotation marks. The paragraph nowhere states

20
00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.719
that the President of Colombia is empowered, much less obliged to convene a Constituent

21
00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:04.480
Assembly. However, I was going
to assure him that it does say so

22
00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:08.439
by interpretation, by analogy, by
extension and that, since the Peace Agreement

23
00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.439
was elevated to a unilateral declaration of
State before the UN Security Council, President

24
00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:22.000
Petro is obliged to quote a constituent. All of this would be an interpretive

25
00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.840
enticing of Leiva one more as when
he said that he did not have to

26
00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:29.879
comply with the hiring statute and the
conciliation law because he could stick to the

27
00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:34.879
primary line, which was the Constitution, in whose elaboration he participated to cancel

28
00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:38.360
the tender of passports, which,
by the way, it was his own

29
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.479
Chancellery that opened and qualified. In
short, everything would remain that size if

30
00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.479
it weren' t for President Gustavo
Petro to buy him the theory and he

31
00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:52.319
has already said that the agreement with
the FARC forces him to cite the constituent.

32
00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.960
The letter from former President Juan Manuel
Santos to the Secretary General of the

33
00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.439
ONO that you can already see on
the page of the W say that I

34
00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:07.000
open quotations from some Colombian officials and
former executives have attributed to some paragraphs of

35
00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.680
the agreement a meaning that is contrary
to its object, scope and purpose,

36
00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:15.879
which is possibly incompatible with the principle
of good faith. So far, the

37
00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:20.520
quote also says that it is a
lie that the agreement signed with the FARFA

38
00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:25.520
cultivates extra- institutional paths that allow
to circumvent what the Constitution establishes to be

39
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:30.400
reformed. In short, in terms
of saints, the convocation of a constituent

40
00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.120
must go on to obtain a qualified
majority in Congress, be reviewed by the

41
00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.520
Constitutional Court, obtain the vote of
more than thirteen million Colombians and, according

42
00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:46.280
to him, no part of the
agreement that it signed with RASFAR proposes or

43
00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.520
insinuates that the Government of Colombia is
licensed to assault the Constitution. Rodrigo Londoño,

44
00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:57.039
who was known as Timochenco, who, as commander of the FAR,

45
00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.840
signed the agreement, also told me
that the little Parish does not say that.

46
00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.960
He doesn' t talk about constitutive
convocations, which is the rest.

47
00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:13.159
It is an interesting interpretation, although
under the concept of Timo Chenco the interest

48
00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.560
is not always bad. At this
time, we salute former President Juan Manuel

49
00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:21.439
Santos, with whom we will speak
exclusively of the scope of his letter to

50
00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:26.000
the Secretary- General of the United
Nations. Good morning, Mr Presidents Santos,

51
00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:31.480
good morning, Daniel, and good
morning to your entire audience. Well,

52
00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.519
we' ve seen the little paragraph
that speaks of a great national political

53
00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:41.199
agreement. What was the purpose of
that statement in introducing the peace agreement with

54
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:48.519
fans. For look, Daniel,
I think the important thing here is to

55
00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.800
clarify that the agreement filmed by the
parties does not mention much less, it

56
00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:02.399
demands a constituent assembly and that this
which is a exhausting discussion we carry.

57
00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:09.079
I don' t know how many
months on whether to convene one' s

58
00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.439
constituent and now that the peace agreement
can be used while other problems in the

59
00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:20.160
country are growing. So the intention
of this Charter is precisely to put an

60
00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:27.040
end to this discussion, because,
after the little welcome this thesis has received,

61
00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:33.120
they want to go to the highest
international distance there is, which is

62
00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:40.959
the Security Council, and there they
will not find echo of the demonstrations,

63
00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:47.480
including the former Chancellor when he was
Chancellor in the Security Council. And what

64
00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:55.560
is happening at this time of announcing
that you are going to go to the

65
00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.680
Council to make a demonstration and a
denunciation of the Colombian state. The Colombian

66
00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:05.160
Head of State himself is going to
denounce the Colombian State, because that has

67
00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:10.680
not gone very well. And what
I intend with the Charter is that hopefully

68
00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.079
they will realize that, if they
continue on this path, they will remain

69
00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.680
very moral, but they also leave
the country very bad that I hope,

70
00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.439
reflect that they put an end to
this discussion, that it makes no sense

71
00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:31.399
and that they dedicate themselves to governing
and fixing the growing problems that the Colombian

72
00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.279
population is suffering. That is the
meaning of the Charter. The Charter is

73
00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:41.040
very clear. There is no mention
of a constituent assembly. Nor do Security

74
00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:46.439
Council resolutions modify or modify the constitution
of a country, nor do they have

75
00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:54.959
a higher rank than the constitution of
any country. I mean, they'

76
00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:00.720
re not supranational rules. The agreement
of passage with the FACs has no legal

77
00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.399
force in itself, but Congress,
by means of laws or leadership acts,

78
00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:11.639
can adopt rules to develop or implement
the agreement, and that is precisely what

79
00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:18.720
has been done. Besides, Daniel, there' s one thing I'

80
00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:24.240
d like to clarify as well.
Unilateral statements by a Head of State do

81
00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:32.120
not have, do not have,
the legal effect of amending the Constitution of

82
00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:36.439
a country. No one can believe
that, for example, the President of

83
00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:44.360
the United States or the President of
France can make a unilateral state statement that

84
00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:48.439
he will extend the presidential term from
four or six years and, by magic,

85
00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:57.519
the United States Constitution is amended by
that declaration. Oh, my God.

86
00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:03.319
So this is an argument that wears
us out, that won' t

87
00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.600
get anywhere, that doesn' t
hold the deal, or what you have

88
00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.399
to do is implement it. That
is something that should unite the country.

89
00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:20.519
President Pedro himself promised in the campaign
to implement the agreement, because President Duque

90
00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.000
implemented it very little. He didn' t like the peace agreement and did

91
00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.480
very little to implement it and that' s why President Petro said he was

92
00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:33.399
going to implement it. But it
has been two years and, as Rodrigo

93
00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.639
Londoño himself said, it would seem
that this government is less interested in implementing

94
00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.639
what the past has done, because
it has done less in two years than

95
00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.879
the past government did. That is
why I call for the implementation of the

96
00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:52.200
peace process. And to implement it
does not require constituent, it does not

97
00:08:52.200 --> 00:09:01.440
require even many laws. Political will
is required and management capacity is required to

98
00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:09.600
implement all aspects of implementation. Ladies
and gentlemen, ever since you left Nariño

99
00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.679
' s house, you have said
in public also in private that you do

100
00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.720
not want to get involved in politics. And so I have to say that

101
00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.240
you have made an effort not to
polemize with your successors. But I have

102
00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:28.000
to ask you and you will understand
me because not every day a boss was

103
00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.480
in office, as President Gustavo Petro
accuses a former president, how you are

104
00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.639
promoting a coup d'état.
What do you say to President Petro?

105
00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:43.759
See if I don' t want
to go into politics with President Petuo,

106
00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:48.039
let alone withÁlvaro Iba. My
role as ex- president is another.

107
00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.879
I am dedicated to international aspects,
and I have to deal with internal policy

108
00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.559
aspects. Better. I think that
is the most convenient role of the former

109
00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:09.879
presidents, because it gives me some
laughter, because how to say that the

110
00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:15.519
Colombian armed forces have to comply with
their obligation to respect and defend the Constitution

111
00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:20.919
can be considered as an attempted coup
d'état. That doesn' t

112
00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.159
fit in my head. I don' t know why President Petro says those

113
00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:33.039
things. Yesterday I read an interview
of one of the delegates of the Nineteenth

114
00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:39.120
EM in the constituent, in which
it is thus constituent in the discussion for

115
00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.600
the Constitution of the ninety- one, where it said that President Petro should

116
00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:48.440
think before saying things, because generally
the things I did suddenly go wrong.

117
00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:56.080
And in this case, then,
to say that respecting the Constitution is a

118
00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.320
coup d'état, because I
believe that no one can understand why he

119
00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.440
said it. But, what happens
is that you also had some sailings a

120
00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:09.879
while ago and the Chancellor was accusing
you of beating him in the past and

121
00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:15.600
taking out a document in which,
according to him, you proposed a constituent

122
00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.720
in the nineties to replace then President
Ernesto San Pedro. Immersed, then,

123
00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:26.320
in the scandal of the process of
financing his campaign. Well, look,

124
00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.720
Daniel, I' m going to
confess to the interview I was going to

125
00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:41.600
in the magazine week produced me.
I had a feeling like someone else'

126
00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:46.879
s shame and a certain sadness of
seeing you read with those theses and bringing

127
00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.679
to the fore aspects and things that
have nothing to do with it. He

128
00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.080
was referring to a proposal he had
made in the last century. That was

129
00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.399
in nineteen hundred and ninety- seven
parks in a process that began to seek

130
00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.559
the possibility of a peace process and
in that proposal the fals said that,

131
00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.840
as a culmination of the process,
if the process succeeds, a constituent national

132
00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:20.399
assembly could be convened. That is
the meaning of the letter that I left

133
00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.840
inscribed in a commission of the Church
in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-

134
00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.200
seven. If memory is not failure, nothing has to do with today'

135
00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:35.879
s discussion. The fags have ceased
to exist, they have embraced a peace

136
00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.679
process and I really don' t
know why that will bring me up if

137
00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.840
it doesn' t make any sense. Moreover, if they want to convene

138
00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.799
a constituent, they can do so. No one is telling the President that

139
00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:56.600
he cannot summon him, but it
must be through the mechanisms established by the

140
00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.360
Constitution. There he cannot use the
peace agreement, or he cannot use a

141
00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.360
decree to convene a constituent, because
he would be in violation of the Constitution.

142
00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:13.440
If he wants a constituent, he
can summon it, but using the

143
00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.639
mechanisms established by the Constitution of nine
hundred and ninety- one, which he

144
00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.440
himself, as part of the assembly, helped to draft. Hey. I

145
00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.960
have a maledicted friend who says that
the only thing more dangerous thanÁlvaro was

146
00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.639
employed isÁlvaro was unemployed and that
all this is a plan to give him

147
00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.720
peace and total forgiveness and forgetfulness again. And an end- point law.

148
00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.679
You what do you think of that, because look I don' t want

149
00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.120
to go in to controvert with something. I tell you, I know him

150
00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.600
a lot It makes me sad.
That' s why I' m telling

151
00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:56.720
you to see him in these already, at this point in the gripping life,

152
00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.759
he can know if he can appear. I wouldn' t care much

153
00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:03.480
about it. What you' re
saying really doesn' t have any hold

154
00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.320
on it and you' re not
going to give it the importance that some

155
00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.840
people are giving it, because they
don' t. And there is another

156
00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.759
thesis that says that all this is
going to finish the GEP that leiva,

157
00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.360
because it has been wanting to take
them. The initiative that the HEB fulfills

158
00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:28.200
even offers people. You don'
t go into the jef if I want

159
00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.960
that to happen and there are people
who say so. You think that behind

160
00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.039
this there is a purpose to end
the GEB or to diminish its powers,

161
00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:48.360
because the truth, Daniel, I
don' t know if there is an

162
00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:54.360
additional purpose behind all this, which
you do know thatÁlvaro has wanted to

163
00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.600
criticize the GE. The Uniños were
born and there he denounced that people are

164
00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.360
not fulfilling the GE. It may
have many flaws, It has been long

165
00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:09.879
delayed, It took a long time
and it is trying to correct, for

166
00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:15.480
example, amnesties for FAR members who
are not most responsible. It may have

167
00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.519
many flaws, but trying to accuse
the GED of not complying with the agreements

168
00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:26.360
or with its purpose, as it
makes no sense, has no reception whatsoever.

169
00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:33.799
The Chief is a highly respected jurisdiction
internationally. The whole world is following

170
00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:39.440
very carefully everything that is happening in
Colombia, because it is the first signed

171
00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:46.559
agreement to be signed through or under
the umbrella of the Rome Statute, where

172
00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:52.879
the victims are the heart of the
agreement. Their rights to justice, their

173
00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:00.840
rights to the truth, to non- repetition are fundamentals in all negotiation and

174
00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:08.080
implementation, and that is why the
whole world is following very carefully what is

175
00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.000
happening here and that is why it
is so important to implement the peace agreement,

176
00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:19.440
to stop looking for extra- constitutional
mechanisms that do not exist and cannot

177
00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.200
exist, and to dedicate itself to
implementing the peace process. That is my

178
00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:29.600
request to President Petro and to the
Government, please implement the peace agreement which,

179
00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.120
moreover, by implementing the peace agreement, will solve many problems mentioned by

180
00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:41.679
President Petro himself. For example,
President Petro says that the transformation of the

181
00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:48.600
territory yes, the transformation of the
territory was contemplated in the agreement through territorially

182
00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:56.159
focused development plans were negotiated about seventeen. If they implement those agreements, if

183
00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:03.279
they implement them, if they implement
them, if they budget, then there

184
00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.720
the regions that suffered so much with
the war, because they will be transformed

185
00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:14.400
so that there is everything and what
is needed is political will. There is

186
00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.240
management capacity. Well, he'
s Chancellor. Leiba also said that you

187
00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:23.000
did not read what he signed and
that there in the parish it is very

188
00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.680
clear that the President of the Republic
is not only empowered, but obliged to

189
00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:32.480
quote one thing. You customer if
you read the agreements. It' s

190
00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:38.640
President Daniel, please, that little
paragraph that says I was going, because

191
00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.400
Dr Humberto has already said he has
no head or feet. What you'

192
00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:47.880
re saying is leiva. Rodrigo Londoño
himself says that is not true. And,

193
00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.880
in addition, if you read that
paragraph, what it says is that

194
00:17:52.920 --> 00:18:00.279
you have to make a great national
agreement, summon the political forces, the

195
00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:07.160
social organizations to agree on the implementation
of the peace agreement. What any government

196
00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:15.559
does with its policies, makes national
agreements. We did it when we wanted

197
00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:21.480
to do all the reforms we put
before Congress that were approved. We called

198
00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:26.160
on the political parties, the living
forces of the country, the interested parties.

199
00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.920
We argued, we presented that to
Congress, and Congress approved it.

200
00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.160
That is what any Government has to
do with any policy, and that is

201
00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:41.079
what was enshrined in the peace agreement. But in no way can that be

202
00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:48.799
interpreted as the obligation to convene a
constituent. Moreover, the negotiation was established

203
00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:53.559
as a red line, I established
her forgiveness me cable in first person,

204
00:18:53.839 --> 00:19:00.240
myself, as President of Republic.
For no reason will the proposal of a

205
00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:08.480
Constituent Assembly be accepted and the FARKS
discussed among themselves because there were different views.

206
00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:17.079
He won the thesis that they did
submit as a proposal the call for

207
00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:22.839
a constituent and that request of the
FARKS was denied by the national government.

208
00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.319
That is to say, a procedure
arose and he refused. Then. I

209
00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:33.359
don' t know why at this
point it comes up that there implicitly,

210
00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:38.000
because it' s not explicit.
There is the call for a constitution that

211
00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:42.640
really doesn' t make any sense. I find it absurd to attach such

212
00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:47.440
importance to that which is obvious.
It is obvious to anyone that he reads

213
00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:53.079
the peace agreement. President Petro has
said in what is a clear allusion to

214
00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:59.000
you is. The following, I
open Comillas, the national agreement is not

215
00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.680
to go to a club Patton mno
Marubisky, it is among the entire Colombian

216
00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.640
society, including those former presidents.
How to receive that statement from the Chief

217
00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.039
It is, then, that he
invite me to take a whisky wherever he

218
00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.680
wants that I am willing to any
agreement that is for the good of the

219
00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:22.200
country, but that, please,
is coherent and consistent. A national agreement

220
00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:29.680
is to put on the table people
who think differently and it is necessary to

221
00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.759
set that national agreement, and he
is doing exactly the opposite. Every time

222
00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:40.880
someone thinks differently, he insults him, he tells him that he is propitiating

223
00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:45.640
a coup d'état and that
is not the way to create the environment

224
00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:51.920
necessary for the necessary agreements in a
government to pass the reforms. The Council

225
00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:59.480
is therefore very humble to President Petro
that he should adopt a conciliatory attitude,

226
00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:03.160
which will make it easier for him
to call a national agreement. In that,

227
00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.720
for example, it seems to me
that what Senator Ivan ze Peda has

228
00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:12.640
said is correct. What the country
needs is a national agreement to be able

229
00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:17.519
to resolve. Look at the problems
that people of insecurity are having, the

230
00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:21.279
cauca, we' re losing it. The theme of health for God'

231
00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:26.200
s sake. If what happened with
the teachers is the preamble of what will

232
00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.440
happen with health. In Colombia we
have a very serious problem. I saw

233
00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:37.599
what' s going on with the
economy, look what' s going on

234
00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.759
with the energy sources, or something
else that worries me a lot. Daniel

235
00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:47.599
that I was discussing it now in
Brazil, that I spent ten days last

236
00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:53.440
week. I was with organizations and
people who are very interested in protecting the

237
00:21:53.480 --> 00:22:03.039
environment and succeeding in Cop sixteen and
Cop thirty NAFO sixteen will be held in

238
00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.960
Colombia of the Cup thirty in Brazil
at the end of the year. Incomings

239
00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:15.759
were already in Brazil studying very carefully
how they are going to be for that

240
00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.920
cop to be successful, but they
were very concerned that the sixteen cop that

241
00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:26.119
is going to be done here,
in Colombia, in Cali at five months,

242
00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:30.640
does not even have a concrete agenda. The people who wanted to come

243
00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.680
said no. We can' t
go because we don' t know exactly

244
00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.960
what we' re going to do, what the objectives are, how it

245
00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:38.680
' s going to be, how
it' s going to be organized.

246
00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:45.079
Please organize that as quickly as possible, because it is the country that will

247
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:49.799
look very bad if that fails.
They are those kinds of aspects that Petos

248
00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:56.279
should dedicate himself to and will not
fight, he will not fight with Raimundo

249
00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:03.039
and everyone and have there say permanent
turmoil and discussion, because that is not

250
00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:08.319
in the interests of anyone, either
him or the country. Mr Presidents,

251
00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:14.279
Santos, you say that you are
willing to sit with President Petro even says

252
00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.440
to have a whisky. When it
was the last time you spoke to Petro,

253
00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.640
when the relationship between you began to
deteriorate, then look, for my

254
00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:27.359
part, do not be deteriorated,
because I what Petro says does not take,

255
00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:33.599
because very much to heart has left
me twice. He himself invited me

256
00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.000
to talk about it. I'
m more interested in the peace process being

257
00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:45.279
implemented, but on two occasions,
because it didn' t appear and other

258
00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:49.440
people were offended, they took a
thousand. That' s a slap on

259
00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.319
you, because I don' t
have that attitude and I say well,

260
00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.880
I can' t come leave it. I' m not going to use

261
00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:00.319
it and that as a little battle
head, I' ll always be willing.

262
00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.279
I think it' s the obligation
of every former President, that if

263
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.680
they need us, we' re
there. For example, there is an

264
00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:15.119
instance to discuss precisely these kinds of
issues, such as that of the United

265
00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:19.039
Nations Security Council, which is the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, have not convened

266
00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:27.200
it. So what I hope you
think about, that there are ways to

267
00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:36.519
generate agreements and that governing is precisely
making agreements is in democracies. That'

268
00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:41.680
s fundamental. That is why,
in Colombia and everywhere, the art of

269
00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:48.480
governing is being so difficult, because
polarization makes transactions more difficult in a democracy,

270
00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:53.920
and a democracy without the ability to
make transactions between different sectors and interests

271
00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:59.480
of society, because it does not
work and cannot solve problems for people.

272
00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.880
Therefore, it would be good if
President Petro concentrated in the last two years

273
00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:11.640
of government on trying to find a
solution to some of these growing problems that

274
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:19.680
are affecting us. You say the
last two years you have left in government.

275
00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:25.000
You believe that President Petro is going
to leave on the 7th of August

276
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.559
of two thousand and twenty- six, or, as some people think,

277
00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:33.440
that he is going to try to
stay in some way. It' s

278
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.759
just that I don' t find
in any way that he can stay there

279
00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.920
He doesn' t exist. He
would have to break the Constitution, he

280
00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:47.880
would have to become a dictator and
I think that in Colombia he is not

281
00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:52.920
willing to accept that. Mr Es
Presidentes Santos, you feel comfortable being part

282
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.960
of a group against Petro' s
initiative with former Presidents Alvaro Uribe Iván Duque

283
00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:03.240
ernesto san but you spoke to them
and specifically spoke to former President Urin again.

284
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:10.240
No. I hadn' t talked
to him, I haven' t

285
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:12.759
talked to any of the former presidents. But it' s logical. It

286
00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:19.240
is obvious that we all agree that
the Constitution must be respected. That should

287
00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:25.400
not surprise anyone now some who are
saying the Club of former Presidents is opposing

288
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:30.279
the regions of Pepro. No.
What I think is that we agree if

289
00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:34.279
we talk to each other that one
of the duties of any President, because

290
00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:40.119
that is what we swear when we
take office as President is to comply with

291
00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:45.920
the Constitution. Well, it doesn' t seem so logical for the Group

292
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:51.799
to be here either, because obviously
it changed the Constitution to get re-

293
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.880
elected and, moreover, the mechanisms
are extremely questionable. Several of his ministers

294
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.880
went to jail for this reason in
a process that was called the political gypsies,

295
00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:03.119
as well as that respect for the
constitutional order was not so characteristic of

296
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:14.839
that Government. But in Uribe'
s case he made at least one path

297
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:22.680
or tired, a path that was
endorsed by the Constitution, that is,

298
00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.359
by Congress. Yes, he approved
of religion. That' s obvious.

299
00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:33.599
He went through the congressional leak.
What we' re here for. I

300
00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:40.039
think everyone agrees that by a decree, by extra- constitutional means, a

301
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:48.000
constituent cannot be called. And again
I' m going to start with the

302
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.680
fundamentals. Let' s stop arguing
about this, because that' s not

303
00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:57.240
going to happen. It cannot happen
and this attempt to seek an international rod,

304
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:03.000
a band of the Security Council.
Petro has Tania to live in July

305
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.799
have United Nations to seek that endorsement, because he will not find it.

306
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.640
They will tell you, Mr Petro, thank you very much for coming,

307
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:19.000
but do not put us to solve
a problem of internal politics of your country

308
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.720
and they will return it without any
result and the bad country will remain,

309
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:29.000
and for that I hope they will
reflect and do not go to United States

310
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:33.519
to try to involve the Security Council
in something where they do not want to

311
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:38.000
get involved and are not willing to
get involved. And that can almost assure

312
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:44.640
Daniel that that' s what'
s going to happen. A curiosity,

313
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:51.039
Mr President, why the name of
former President Andrés Pastrana has not sounded as

314
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:56.240
part of this group of former Presidents. I have no idea that yes,

315
00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:02.400
ask the journalists or Andrés Pashada.
I have no idea. You mention in

316
00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:07.920
your letter to former Presidents Felipe González
of Spain and Pepe Mújica of Uruguay,

317
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.759
who are verifiers of the peace agreement, and say they agree with your communication.

318
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.880
What did they say, for look, I sent the letters to both

319
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:23.839
of them and they authorized me to
say that, indeed, they agreed with

320
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:29.359
the thesis of the Charter, with
the spirit of the Charter, with the

321
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:32.720
content and of the Charter and with
the continuity of the Charter. It simply

322
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:38.880
says that one cannot seek to break
the Colombian Constitution through the peace agreement or

323
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:47.440
through the Security Council. That'
s simple. What consequences you expect from

324
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:53.240
your letter to the UN Secretary,
Antonio Gutérrez. The consequences are simply that

325
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:57.160
when President Petro Vaya will tell you
what I have just said, look,

326
00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:06.559
Mr Pep, but we do not
accept your thesis in that it is not

327
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:10.000
up to us. They' re
going to tell you in a very diplomatic,

328
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:14.559
very kind way, and what I
do hope is that they ratify what

329
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:21.039
they' ve been telling you every
three or four months that they' re

330
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:25.519
going to Colombia to make some kind
of report on how implementation is going and

331
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:29.640
that they tell you, please,
but rather, I' m going to

332
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.720
be focused on implementing the peace agreement. I hope that happens. Mr President,

333
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:38.480
Juan Manuel Santos, thank you very
much for this conversation. To Ostedes

334
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:45.160
Daniel, thank you very much for
this opportunity in the interview given to us

335
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:51.000
a few days ago by former President
Gustavo Petro Federico Gómez de Cambio and to

336
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:56.279
me he said that he will travel
to the United Nations headquarters to discuss these

337
00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.599
issues with the Secretary General and with
members of the Security Council. So this

338
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.799
thing just starts. This was today' s Colonel report. Thank you very

339
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:11.119
much. No daniel a second,
because, in addition to the Colonel report,

340
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.680
you had an immersion job in the
elections in Mexico. I am very

341
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:25.319
clear about the conclusion of this conversation. That trip to New York by President

342
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:32.480
Petro confirms that former President Santos himself
is not going to have an atmosphere,

343
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:37.200
because he, precisely with that letter, has made him a very bad atmosphere.

344
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:40.480
For the purpose of that journey