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Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)

COLOMBIA: ELN joins peace process

The leader of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), ‘Gabino’ (Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista) announced on 7 January that Colombia’s second guerrilla group would join peace negotiations with the government and “would be willing to consider downing our arms”. President Juan Manuel Santos publicly pre-empted the announcement by urging the group to begin formal talks and join the indefinite unilateral ceasefire declared by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) on 20 December.

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