Colombia’s Santos welcomes pressure on peace talks
Colombia’s Santos welcomes pressure on peace talks
Friday, 05 June 2015 10:51
Posted by Parvez Jabri
BOGOTA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday he welcomes international pressure to accelerate peace talks with the FARC guerrillas, which has mounted in recent weeks as fighting has intensified.
The international community has voiced alarm over Santos's decision in April to resume air strikes on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a move that prompted the rebels to scrap a unilateral ceasefire they had declared in December.
But in his first interview with an international news agency since the end of the ceasefire on May 22, Santos told AFP that recent events would only accelerate the peace process -- including, he said, diplomatic pressure from Europe, which he will visit next week.
"I think people on the outside may grasp the reality of the country we're living in better than us," he said before heading to Brussels for a summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
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