The international community has been a fundamental support to the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP. From the start of the negotiations, the accompanying guarantor countries —Cuba, Norway, Chile and Venezuela— were vital to building confidence between the parties and ensuring that dialogues continued in the most difficult moments. An additional impulse to discussions came from the concrete support provided by other actors that appointed special envoys to the peace process, such as Jean Arnault for the United Nations, Bernie Aronson for the United States, and Eamon Gilmore for the European Union.