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Identify who made these statements related to the peace process.

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As part of combatants’ process to lay down arms and transition to civilian life, FARC-EP members traveled from different parts of the country to the pre-grouping points, sites where the Transitional Local Zones for Normalization (ZVTNs, in Spanish) were later built.

On September 26, 2016, in Cartagena, the parties signed the Agreement to End the Armed Conflict and Build a Stable and Lasting Peace.

As part of the laying down of arms process, the FARC-EP established and provided the location of multiple caches that contained the war materials and weaponry it had accumulated throughout its armed struggle. With support from the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism, these materials were removed and subsequently disposed of.

As part of including the ethnic approach in the Peace Agreement, on June 27, 2016, a delegation made up of members of different ethnic groups (primarily Afro-Colombian people and Indigenous communities) met with members of the negotiating teams in Havana.

Completion of the process to disable and destroy FARC-EP weapons After the FARC-EP’s laying down of arms—a process that included the collection of 8,994 firearms, 38,255 kilograms of explosives, and 11,015 grenades, among other war materials, by the UN Mission in Colombia—the Mission proceeded to disable these weapons.

On August 15, 2017, in the presence of President Juan Manuel Santos, the UN Verification Mission completed the process to remove the containers with FARC-EP weapons from the local zones. This concluded the laying down of arms process by FARC-EP members and led to the next step: disabling and destroying the weapons to build the three agreed monuments.

On August 26, 2016, President Juan Manuel Santos, in the presence of his ministers and negotiating team, signed Decree 1386 of 2016, which ordered the bilateral and definitive ceasefire and cessation of hostilities between the national government and the FARC-EP.

After almost a year of attempts to begin talks and of exchanges, meetings, and negotiations (in the secret phase of the peace process), the plenipotentiary delegates of the government of Colombia and the plenipotentiaries and members of the FARC-EP, with the governments of Cuba and Norway as witnesses, reached an agreement on how the peace negotiations would be carried out (including the agenda).

As part of including a gender approach in the Peace Agreement, a Gender Subcommittee was created in June 2014. In parallel with the Negotiation Table, it worked to integrate gender into all the agreements reached by the parties.