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Colombian president Gustavo Petro attends the third round of peace talks in Havana to announce a six-month ceasefire pact with the ELN guerrilla in pursuit of ending decades of conflict in the South American country. IMAGES
Havana, Jul 24 (EFE), (Camera: Felipe Borrego).- Amid a growing number of infections in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN) says it remains active and without registered coronavirus cases.SOUNDBITES OF ELN LEADER ISRAEL RAMÍREZ PINEDA, ALIAS “PABLO BELTRÁN:"At the moment it (the virus) does not exist on our front lines. Mobility has been considerably restricted, contact with populations where there is a high contagion is avoided, and generally speaking in our areas the levels of contagion are very low.""The misfortune of this Government is that even before coming to power, it was committed to tearing peace, so it came to power and put its task into practice. That's why it has beaten it so hard and ignored the agreements with the FARC... and that's why it has always been very distant from the resumption of peace talks with us."
Colombia's government and the country's second largest rebel group, ELN, have announced the start of peace talks. Paul Chapman reports.
The Colombian government and dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group that signed a 2016 peace pact, start talks with a view to demobilizing some 3,500 fighters and putting an end, once and for all, to their armed insurgency. The parties have also agreed to observe a bilateral ceasefire until January 15, according to the defense ministry. Negotiations between the government of President Gustavo Petro and leaders of the so-called Central General Staff (EMC) kick off in Tibu in the country's northeast, an area surrounded by drug crops and hard-hit by the ongoing violence. IMAGES
The government of Colombia and armed dissidents who broke off from what was once the nation's largest insurgency agree to renew a ceasefire and join peace talks. A joint statement did not specify how soon the ceasefire would take effect but said peace talks would subsequently begin between the government and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an insurgency that laid down arms in 2016. IMAGES
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro holds an event in the capital Bogota with guerillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and civil organizations as a bilateral ceasefire comes into effect. IMAGES
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