Representatives of Colombia’s government and paramilitary organization EGC have kicked off formal demobilization talks in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the Peace Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday. Pilot programThe EGC agreed to inspect their troops and surrender forcibly recruited child soldiers, if there are any, to the government’s Family welfare Institute. The EGC will allow the government to implement a program that would allow coca farmers from the pilot program region to substitute their illicit crops. The EGC will allow Colombia’s migration agency to operate in the pilot program region and come up with policies to regulate migration on the Panamanian border. Since then, the EGC has become Colombia’s largest illegal armed group and effectively controls much of the Pacific and Caribbean coastal regions.