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Colombia and FARC rebels reach definitive ceasefire deal
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 22, 2016 02:01pm |
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| Author | Julia Symmes Cobb and Sarah Marsh |
| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 22, 2016 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels said on Wednesday they had reached agreement on a definitive ceasefire that would end hostilities in the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere.
After more than three years of sometimes fraught negotiations, the agreement at peace talks in Havana marks the penultimate step to ending a war that has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions of others.
"We have arrived with success at an agreement on the bilateral and definitive ceasefire and end to hostilities," both sides said in a statement read to media in the Cuban capital.
The accord will be signed on Thursday in Havana by President Juan Manuel Santos and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko.
Cuban President Raul Castro, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will attend the ceremony, the two sides said.
Santos said this week the government and the rebels will complete negotiations by July 20. The ceasefire, which includes terms for the FARC's demobilization and laying down of arms, does not begin until the final deal is signed. |
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