Colombia’s new president Gustavo Petro said he was suspending arrest warrants and extradition requests for members of left-wing guerrilla group in an effort to restart peace talks and end nearly 60 years of war : worldnews

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“I’ve licensed the reinstatement of the protocols, permitting negotiators to once more reconnect with their group, suspending arrest warrants for these negotiators, suspending extradition orders for these negotiators as a way to begin a dialogue with the Nationwide Liberation Military,” Petro mentioned.

Petro has mentioned a go to to Cuba this month by Colombian and worldwide officers was meant to tease out whether or not the ELN, which is seen as radical and never centrally-controlled, really is keen to pursue a peace course of.

Talks between the ELN and the Santos authorities started in Ecuador, later shifting to Cuba, however have been known as off by Santos’ successor Ivan Duque as a result of the ELN refused to halt hostilities and killed 22 police cadets in a Bogota bomb assault.

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