Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos hosted his French peer François Hollande this week. Hollande, the first French head of state to visit Colombia in 28 years, promised to provide post-conflict support to Colombia during a visit to one of the ‘concentration zones’ where some 7,000 Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas are gathering as part of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) phase of the peace process over the course of the next five months. Hollande also said he would push for the European Union (EU) to negotiate with the Pacific Alliance, the trade bloc comprising Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Peru, to increase trade and investment. He indirectly criticised US President Donald Trump by stating that protectionism is “the worst response” to the present global challenges.
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