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NEWLY re-elected Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos installed a new legislature on Sunday, calling it a “Congress of peace.”
He asked it for support in creating a post-conflict nation amid negotiations in Cuba with the country’s Farc rebels and to build agreement to halt the civil war which has raged since Farc was founded in 1964.
Mr Santos also called on the new body to enact reforms that would “leave behind war and hatred,” and insisted that “this will be, without a doubt, the Congress of peace.”
After 19 months of talks in Havana, the Colombian government and Farc negotiators have reached agreement on three points of a six-point agenda.
But they must still agree how to compensate victims, how the rebels will disarm and how to ratify the final agreement.
