Reuters. 14 January 2002. Colombia President Gives FARC Six Days to Deliver.
BOGOTA -- Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Monday gave Marxist FARC rebels six days to prove their commitment to a cease-fire deal, saying he would shut down their safe haven without concrete progress by Jan. 20. International mediators earlier hammered out a deal to begin cease-fire negotiations. It stopped the clock running down to a Monday night deadline for the FARC to back down on demands for laxer controls on an enclave ceded to it in late 1998 or face an army offensive. "There's less than a week left to decide whether to extend the life of the enclave," Pastrana said in a televised address to the nation. "We haven't reached the goal yet." Pastrana, who leaves office in August after May elections, said he had instructed his chief peace negotiator, Camilo Gomez, to get back down to talks on Monday night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
