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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro holds an event in the capital Bogota with guerillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and civil organizations as a bilateral ceasefire comes into effect. IMAGES
Timoleon Jimenez, the leader of Colombian rebel group FARC, announced a ceasefire in Havana on Sunday after reaching an agreement with the Colombian government, ending one of the longest running and deadliest wars in the world, which has already left over 300,000 people dead.
The government of Colombia and armed dissidents who broke off from what was once the nation's largest insurgency agree to renew a ceasefire and join peace talks. A joint statement did not specify how soon the ceasefire would take effect but said peace talks would subsequently begin between the government and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an insurgency that laid down arms in 2016. IMAGES
Colombian president Gustavo Petro attends the third round of peace talks in Havana to announce a six-month ceasefire pact with the ELN guerrilla in pursuit of ending decades of conflict in the South American country. IMAGES
Bogota, Aug 31 (EFE).- Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana said on Tuesday that the transitional justice system that emerged from the peace agreement between the Government and the FARC has stains because former president Juan Manuel Santos did not seek consensus to legitimize it after losing the plebiscite of the treaty. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: FORMER COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT ANDRES PASTRANA JOIN A TRUTH CONTRIBUTION HEARING HELD AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE TRUTH COMMISSION, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.SOUND BITE: FORMER COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT ANDRÉS PASTRANA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: I cannot comprehend why former President Juan Manuel Santos decided to waste the historic opportunity to achieve consensus on the Havana agreements, as I proposed to him in a face-to-face meeting in the Casa de Nariño after the results of the plebiscite.
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