Colombia government in preliminary peace talks with ELN rebels


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Jun 2014

Colombia's President and presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos speaks during a campaign rally event in Bogota June 8, 2014. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has begun exploratory peace talks with leftist ELN rebels, he said on Tuesday, just days before voters go to the polls in one of the tightest presidential election battles in decades.

The center-right government said it started discussing an agenda early in the year to begin official negotiations to end a half century war with the National Liberation Army (ELN).

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