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Weekly Report - 19 May 2016 (WR-16-19)
COLOMBIA: Major accord over minors
After weeks of scant progress government and guerrilla negotiating teams in Cuba took two significant steps in the space of three days this week: firstly, they agreed to enshrine a final accord struck in Havana in the Colombian constitution and legal system to make it difficult for a future government to reverse; secondly, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) committed to identify and release all of the minors presently in guerrilla camps. Separately, the maximum leader of the Farc, ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri) made an unusual appeal, reaching out to his chief adversary, and principal opponent to the peace process in Colombia, Senator Alvaro Uribe (former president 2002-2010).
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