Mujica offers to mediate in Colombia talks
Mujica offers to mediate in Colombia talks
Friday, January 24, 2014
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MONTEVIDEO — Uruguayan President José Mujica announced yesterday that he will meet with his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos and representatives of FARC in Cuba next week and that he intends to help peace negotiations move forward.
The rebels and the Colombian government have been negotiating for the last 15 months an end to a bloody armed conflict that has lasted five decades.
“I will stay for a couple of days after the (CELAC) summit. And I will meet with President Juan Manuel Santos and with FARC,” Mujica, a former guerrilla fighter himself, said yesterday acording to Uruguayan magazine Búsqueda.
The president will travel to Cuba to participate in the Celac summit alongside his Foreign Relations minister, Luis Almagro.
Mujica told Búsqueda that he wants “to continue helping concretely for the negotiation to move forward and to give them moral support. I want them to feel that the cause deserves everyone’s support,”
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