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Judi Lynn

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Mon Aug 8, 2016, 11:20 PM Aug 2016

Colombia and UN make final preparations for FARC demobilization

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombia and UN make final preparations for FARC demobilization

written by Stephen Gill August 8, 2016

Delegates from Colombia’s national government, the FARC and the United Nations began making technical visits to designated demobilization sites on Monday as the rebels prepare to surrender their weapons in the final stages of four-year peace talks.

The visits to 23 concentration areas and camps is carried out with the aim of verifying their suitability to allow the decommissioning of weapons as part of the FARC’s dismantling more than 50 years after the guerrilla group was formed.

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Delegates from Colombia’s national government, the FARC and the United Nations began making technical visits to designated demobilization sites on Monday as the rebels prepare to surrender their weapons in the final stages of four-year peace talks.

The visits to 23 concentration areas and camps is carried out with the aim of verifying their suitability to allow the decommissioning of weapons as part of the FARC’s dismantling more than 50 years after the guerrilla group was formed.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-un-make-final-preparations-farc-demobilization/

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