Weekly Report - 16 June 2016 (WR-16-23)

Colombia’s congress has approved legislation granting constitutional status to an eventual peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). The senate and lower chamber voted overwhelmingly this week to adopt an agreement between the government and Farc negotiating teams struck on 12 May designed to prevent future governments from annulling what is being painstakingly negotiated in Cuba. This will only take effect after the final accord is approved in a popular referendum, the precise nature of which is yet to be defined.

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