From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Colombia: Annan Appoints Acting Special Adviser On Colombia - Xinhua XINHUA - Peoples Republic of China Annan Appoints Acting Special Adviser on Colombia ==================================== UNITED NATIONS, November 13 (Xinhua) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday appointed James LeMoyne as Acting Special Adviser on Colombia, which is ready to open to international mediation to jumpstart its stalled peace process. A U.N. statement said here that LeMoyne has been serving as deputy special adviser to Jan Egeland, who, it was recently announced would leave the United Nations early next year to become Secretary-General of the Norwegian Red Cross. "LeMoyne will assume this position in January 2002, upon Egeland's departure," the statement said. The appointment came one day after the Colombian Government said it was open to international mediation for peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "Colombia has not yet tried mediation, but it is possible that it would be useful," Interior Minister Armando Estrada, told the Cali daily El Pais. "It is possible that we would use it in the future." The statement referred to proposed mediation from the United Nations and a number of countries to jumpstart the country's beleaguered peace process between the government and rebels. Negotiations between the government and the FARC have been frozen since October 17, as the group protests air surveillance of the zone it controls, which followed a wave of violence blamed on the rebels. The 16,500-strong FARC is the oldest and best-armed insurgency in Latin America and one of the key players in Colombia's civil war, which has claimed some 200,000 lives since it erupted 37 years ago. Enditem _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
