BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government has welcomed a plan by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to call an indefinite cease-fire but said it rejected the FARC's condition that independent verification be implemented for it to begin, it said in a statement on Thursday.
Announcing its cease-fire plans on Wednesday, the FARC said it would call it off if attacked by government forces, though the government has repeatedly rejected calls for a bilateral cease-fire, leaving the viability of the offer in doubt.
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