PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REINCORPORATED PERSONS FROM THE CACIQUE NUTIBARA BLOCK OF THE UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLOMBIA - AUC
La Ceja, Antioquia, 16 December 2003

The national government, represented by the High Commissioner for Peace, Dr. Luis Carlos Restrepo, and the members of the Cacique Nutibara Block, represented by Jovani de Jesús Marín Zapata and Fabio Orlando Acevedo Monsalve, in fulfillment of what was established on 15 July 2003 in the Santa Fe de Ralito framework agreement and supported by Resolution 216 of 24 2003, have agreed to the following points:

- The process of reincorporation into civilian life of the demobilized persons begins on 16 December 2003, and will be extended over the period of a year and a half until 16 July 2005, at which time the program of re-incorporation for these beneficiaries will have ended. Once this reincorporation period has ended, the parties involved may agree upon other programs to be carried out during the reconciliation phase.
- The political responsibility for the reincorporation is within the competence of the national government. The Office of the Mayor of Medellín will contribute in developing programs for reincorporation and especially in developing a model for verification, monitoring, and follow-up The national government recognizes the Non Governmental Organization named the "Corporación Democracia" (Democracy Corporation) as the organization representing the reincorporated persons of the Cacique Nutibara Block and will maintain a permanent dialogue with this organization for follow-up, development, and support for the reinsertion process. The national government, the Office of the Mayor of Medellín, and the Corporación Democracia will design the programs for follow-up, development, and support for the reinsertion process.
- In the same manner, the national government and the Office of the Mayor of Medellín will support, when they consider it appropriate, the development of initiatives for peace, coexistence and reconciliation carried out by this Non Governmental Organization.
- The benefits for the demobilized persons of the Cacique Nutibara Block, including the legal ones, have been placed within the framework of Law 782 of 2002 and Decree 3360 of 21 November 2003, as well as Resolution 217 of 24 November 2003.

- With respect to employment, the current Office of the Mayor of Medellín will place those who fulfill the requirements in employment alternatives for a period of at least one year, at the end of which the Office of the Mayor, in accordance with the budgetary reality of the municipality of Medellín, will evaluate each person's situation on order to extend those contracts that it considers convenient or seek other employment options in the public sector, the private sector or in developing individual or collective projects for creating businesses. Likewise, the national government will seek employment options with the private sector.
- The national government will provide whatever is appropriate to guarantee affiliation with the SISBEN for the demobilized persons, whenever it is appropriate within the legal framework.
- The national government will provide security for the reincorporated persons as a whole, as well as security for six of its leading members and the organization's spokesperson. The municipality of Medellín and Metro Seguridad (Metropolitan Security) will contribute towards the design of programs and logistical support in order to achieve this goal. Metro Seguridad, of the Office of the Mayor of Medellín, will logistically support the functioning and equipping of the preventive information network that will have to be created in order to provide for early warnings that are to protect the demobilized persons and their sectors for return and settlement.
- The municipality of Medellín will contribute by means of the program for follow-up, monitoring and psychosocial accompaniment for both individual and collective cases, which will be the responsibility of the High Commissioner's Office for Peace. To this end, the municipal administration will be responsible for creating zonal centers for attention for the reincorporated persons. New people or organizations, with respect to which there is no doubt of their neutrality and seriousness, can be invited to participate in the follow-up, and the purpose and objective of their inclusion will have to be defined and made clear to them. The program for follow-up, monitoring and accompaniment will have to be regulated before the end of January 2004.
- Verification of the process and of the agreements will be the responsibility of the Verification Commission, agreed upon between the parties involved and designated by the national government by means of Resolution 216 of 24 November 2003. Verification can be extended upon mutual consent of the parties involved.
- The reincorporated persons, by means of an individual agreement of commitment to the peace of Colombia, provide proof of their decision to abandon their illegal status and give up their arms and organization, and commit themselves to not join an illegal armed group again. Whoever fails to fulfill this, will lose all of the benefits derived from this peace process.
- The institutions of the State recognize and respect the civil, political and legal rights of the reincorporated persons as citizens of Colombia.
- The reincorporated persons, and especially their leaders, commit themselves to collaborate with the legitimately constituted authorities, working within the framework of legality and cooperation that applies to all citizens.
- The reincorporated persons will have an internal identification document for administrative purposes, which is to be guaranteed by the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace.
- Starting from the moment in which they surrender their arms, the reincorporated persons commit themselves to cease all hostile, violent and armed actions. They also commit themselves as new citizens living in a legal manner to abandon any illegal source of financing.

In proof of the above, it is signed on four pages:

For the National Government:

LUIS CARLOS RESTREPO RAMÍREZ
High Commissioner for Peace

For the Demobilized Persons of the Cacique Nutibara Block:

JOVANI DE JESÚS MARÍN ZAPATA
Member and Representative

FABIO ORLANDO ACEVEDO MONSALVE
Member and Representative

As witnesses:

LUIS PEREZ GUTIERREZ
Mayor of Medellín

SERGIO FAJARDO
Mayor-elect of Medellín

JAIME OVIEDO AVILA
Spokesperson