QUITO — Colombia opens peace talks on Tuesday with its last active rebel group, the ELN, seeking to replicate its historic accord with the FARC guerrillas and deliver "complete peace" after 53 years of war. Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, was nevertheless full of optimism heading into the talks. "The public phase of negotiations between the Colombian government and the ELN... will enable us to achieve complete peace." Last November’s landmark peace accord with the oldest and largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), leaves the National Liberation Army (ELN) as the last remaining guerrilla insurgency. Santos had to tweak the initial FARC accord after voters narrowly rejected it in a referendum last October -- a major embarrassment for the government.

Source: Viet Nam News February 07, 2017 04:08 UTC