EU officials meet FARC

Paris - Officials of European Union countries met representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas…

Paris - Officials of European Union countries met representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas in Paris yesterday to seek solutions to continued warfare in the Latin American state.

A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said after the meeting that it was held with the agreement of the Colombian government, with which FARC is at war, and that solutions to humanitarian questions were especially sought.

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