UN General Assembly
1985

Our openness to constructive dialog continues to be our rule, a feeling which has not been shared by the extremist groups. This was shown during the second round of talks held in Ayagualo, Libertad Department, on 30 November 1984, in which they took advantage of the meeting to incite to violence and not to strengthen the road to peace as we had proposed. In general, in Ayagualo the extremist groups asked for the unconditional surrender of a legitimately constituted Government. Thus, despite the cloak of misinformation on the development of the dialog which was promoted at the international level by the leadership of the FMLN-POR, they placed a serious obstacle on the road to peace by trying to use the dialog for tactical purposes, in order to concentrate efforts toward the global development of their strategy of protracted popular war against our people and its institutions. Despite that, the Government thinks of dialog as something permanent and as a viable way toward a rational solution to the conflict it should thus be continued with sincerity and goodwill to attain peace.