Santos, team finalize peace talks details

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos met with his negotiating team Tuesday to finalize details of the upcoming peace talks in Oslo, Norway.

The government’s negotiators, which is headed by Humberto de la Calle, Sergio Jaramillo, Frank Pearl and Alejandro Eder, met with Santos right before the second phase of negotiations, according to Caracol Radio. The official peace process will begin in the Norwegian capital of Oslo with the country’s largest rebel guerrilla group FARC before later moving to Havana, Cuba.

The president also talked to the president of Brazil, Dilma Rosusseff, briefly on the phone who reassured Santos that Brazil would support Santos and the peace process in what ever way possible. Santos said that the conversation was reassuring and important since Brazil “is an important and credible actor in the region,” newspaper El Espectador reported.

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