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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8630

24 January 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/latin america
Peace process in Colombia, anti-coca plan and EU relations with Mercosur and Andean Pact to be the focus of Chris Patten's visit

Brussels, 23/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - After having invited, in veiled terms, the Colombian government to act in respect of the rule of law in combating the Marxist guerrilla force (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.5), the European Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, called upon the FARC (the main Colombian guerrilla movement) in Bogota on Wednesday to "negotiate and implement a humanitarian agreement (for exchanging prisoners)" and denounced the kidnapping of civilians by rebels....

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