Intermediaries from the republic of turkey and Norway met on 24 February in an attempt to bring FARC rebels and government negotiators back to the talks table . There has been a marked change in recent weeks . A final agreement , following three years of talks , and decades of conflict , was expected in late March . Instead , the peace process has hit obstacles , underlining its fragility . The most recent of these came in the form of a six - day political rally , held by FARC in a small Colombian town last week . Although the government has lifted many of the restrictions on FARC to allow its leaders to promote the peace deal among the group ’s fighters , this was outside the agreed parameters . This latest issue underlines many of the obstacles within the process . Observers argue that it is a positive sign that the country has been brought back from the brink , but a final peace deal now takes months off rather than weeks .
Intermediaries from the governments of Cuba and Norway met on 24 February in an attempt to bring FARC rebels and government negotiators back to the talks table. There has been a marked change in recent weeks. A final agreement, following three years of talks, and decades of conflict, was expected in late March. Instead, the peace process has hit obstacles, underlining its fragility. The most recent of these came in the form of a six-hour political rally, held by FARC in a small Colombian town last week. Although the government has lifted many of the restrictions on FARC to allow its leaders to promote the peace deal among the group’s fighters, this was outside the agreed parameters. This latest issue underlines many of the tensions within the process. Observers argue that it is a positive sign that the situation has been brought back from the brink, but a final peace deal now looks months off rather than weeks.