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Weekly Report - 09 July 2020 (WR-20-27)
COLOMBIA: ELN proposes ceasefire after suffering twin blows
The Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) has proposed a 90-day bilateral ceasefire, ostensibly in response to a resolution issued by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for a halt to armed conflicts globally in the midst of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The guerrilla group said it could pave the way for a renewal of peace negotiations. But President Iván Duque gave a dismissive response. Five days earlier the Colombian authorities arrested ELN operatives allegedly involved in the car bomb which claimed the lives of 22 cadets at a Bogotá police academy in January 2019, an attack which torpedoed the peace talks.
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