BOGOTA (Reuters) – The Colombian government and left-wing guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) will restart peace talks to end nearly 60 years of war next week, President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday.
Petro, a former member of the M-19 insurgency who took office in August, has promised to bring “total peace” to the Andean country via negotiations with rebels and crime gangs.
“Yes, that’s it,” Petro told journalists outside a military airport, when asked if the talks, whose restart was announced last month, would begin on Monday.
(Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb)
