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A FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebel monitors the delivery of released hostages from a cocoa plantation in Monte Alegre province, in the department of Valle del Cauca February 15, 2013. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
The Colombian government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are making progress in peace talks, and a deal to end Latin America’s longest-running conflict is in sight, Norway’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“We’re making progress in Colombia and I think we hopefully are close to a deal,” Borge Brende told a conflict-resolution seminar.
Norway and Cuba mediate the talks. The five-decade conflict in Colombia has cost at least 220,000 lives.
