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Security & Strategic Review - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COLOMBIA: Bilateral ceasefire ‘possible before final agreement’
On 29 July President Juan Manuel Santos announced that progress had been made in the talks with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) to achieve a definitive bilateral ceasefire. ‘Though this is an issue in which many conditions must be met,’ he said, ‘we have already agreed that representatives of the United Nations and Uruguay would take part in the process of verification and monitoring of such a bilateral ceasefire.’ On 3 August the government’s chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, suggested that a decision on this could be taken by November ‘even before a final agreement is signed’. ‘What we want to know by early November,’ he said, ‘is whether we are talking along compatible lines or have really reached a point of incompatibility.’
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