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Weekly Report - 8 June 2004
COLOMBIA: Mexico to help in renewed talks with ELN
Refusing to go along with President Alvaro Uribe's wish to have all illegal armed groups in his country declared `terrorist organisations' does appear to have proven its usefulness, once the initial irritation in Bogotá has worn off. Now Uribe has enlisted Mexican President Vicente Fox as `guarantor' of renewed peace negotiations with the second-largest guerrilla organisation, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). This follows his having welcomed Lula da Silva's offer of Brazil as a venue for talks between the Farc and the UN.
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