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Witness History: Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war

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Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war

31/12/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war

The UN's top negotiator Alvaro de Soto recalls his part in bringing peace to El Salvador

The UN's veteran diplomat Alvaro de Soto, recalls his part in bringing peace to El Salvador in December 1991

On December 31 1991 the two warring parties in El Salvador's brutal civil war agreed to end the fighting. Left-wing FMLN rebels pledged to disarm and demobilise all their fighters, in exchange for the US-backed government and military carrying out sweeping political and security reforms. The Salvadoran peace process was heralded as a major victory for UN diplomacy. Its top negotiator, the Peruvian Alvaro de Soto, tells Mike Lanchin about his role in the long road to peace in El Salvador.

Photo: Rebels celebrate the end of the war in El Salvador (Jason Bleibtreu/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

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