Latin American Herald Tribune

ELN Guerrillas Say Everything on Table in Talks with Colombia

May 11 -- The National Liberation Army, or ELN, Colombia’s second-largest guerrilla group, said there were no “reserved issues” in possible peace talks with the government and called for a political solution to the more than 50-year-old “armed conflict” in the Andean nation

11 de mayo de 2009

The ELN’s Central Command laid out its position in a letter released Saturday in response to a request from the CCP, a peace group formed by Colombian intellectuals that called on the rebels to stop kidnappings and other practices that violate human rights.

“For the ELN, there do not exist any reserved issues in any possible dialogue,” the guerrilla group’s leaders said in a letter datelined May 4 in “the mountains of Colombia.”
 
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