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Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1992

The Parties failed to implement several components of the Agreement by the specified dates: both the Government and the FMLN were over three months late in concentrating their forces in the designated areas; the Government was over three months late in establishing the National Public Security Academy; the FMLN was over three months late in returning the first 20% of its combatants to civilian life; the Government was over three months late in promoting legislation to establish the FMLN as a political party.¹ The Parties subsequently reached a negotiated agreement to adjust the deadlines as follows: concentrate forces in the established areas by 25 June 1992; begin the reintegration of former FMLN combatants to civilian life by 30 June 1992 and finish by 31 October 1992; commence the first course at the National Public Security Academy within 15 days after June 30 1992; present legislation to definitively abolish the National Guard and Treasury Police and establish a “Special Brigade for Military Security” (with no further transfers from military bodies to the National Civil Police) by 30 June 1992; propose legislation to facilitate the legalization of the FMLN as a political party by 30 June 1992; finalize programs to reintegrate former FMLN combatants into civilian life by 15 July 1992; and complete COPAZ verification of inventories of lands presented by the FMLN by 30 June 1992.[fn]”Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador,” United Nations Security Council (S/23999/Add.1), June 16, 1992.[/efn_note] On 23 December 1992, ONUSAL confirmed that the armed conflict between the Government of El Salvador and the FMLN formally ended on 15 December 1992.²

1. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador,” United Nations Security Council (S/23999), May 26, 1992.
2. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL),” United Nations Security Council (S/25006), December 23, 1992.