The National Unemployment Committee , made up of unions and social organizations, and the Colombian Government again showed their differences and clashes this Sunday when it comes to dialogue to seek a solution to the serious crisis that the country is going through after more than a month of social protests.

The leaders of the strike denounced today, six days after announcing that they had reached a pre-agreement, that the Government refuses to sign the so-called "pre-agreement of guarantees of protest", while the Government clings to the condition of lifting the blockades before to sit down "to build agreements."

"The only thing we ask the Unemployment Committee to sit down to build agreements is the lifting of the blockades," the government explained in a statement, after the last meeting held today with the representatives of the National Unemployment Committee, which is criticized for turn for not having a real representation on the protests.

The Government, which hides behind the "thousands of Colombians representing millions" who have taken to the streets today to protest against the national strike, asks that they commit to carry out every action or conduct that is necessary for them to rise up, so that all blockades in Colombia will cease forever.

And he regrets that the National Unemployment Committee "instead of showing solidarity with Colombians, has insisted on its support for the blockades."

However, the Committee, in another statement dated today, denounced that the Government has taken out of the pre-agreement that they had reached on Monday "crucial issues" such as demilitarization and the non-use of military assistance in the protest, since President Iván Duque He resorted to this measure on Friday, after the acts of violence in cities like Cali (southwest) or Madrid (center).

"It is not about adjustments in the wording, as they had announced, it is about undoing the pre-agreement reached and thereby closing any possibility of negotiation," the Committee alleged, noting that the national government has a simulated will to negotiate.

With "the escalation of military and police measures, the already very delicate human rights situation is blocked, spoiled and the efforts made to start negotiations are wasted, unnecessarily prolonging and at very high costs, a solution, which in any case will be at through a negotiation", considered the committee.

Both the UN, the European Union and several countries called on Saturday for a serious dialogue as a solution to the crisis and to prevent more violence and more people dying, after 13 homicides were confirmed on Friday in Cali after a day of clashes with the Police and the irruption of armed civilians in the protests.

Both the Government and the National Unemployment Committee insisted in their statements on the willingness to sit down and talk and seek agreements, but 20 days have passed since the first meeting between the two parties and progress is minimal and no solution or consensus is seen on the table.

The NGO Temblores and the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) recorded 60 deaths during the protests of the last month in Colombia, of which 43 are attributed to the public force. Of the total deaths, 39 took place in Cali, the majority in the first week of protests.

The Prosecutor's Office, for its part, counts 43 deaths, although only "17 of them have a direct link in the framework of the protests" and continues to search for 123 people who have disappeared during the demonstrations.