Reuters. 11 January 2002. Colombia's Pastrana Sets 48 - Hour Peace Deadline.
BOGOTA -- Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Thursday gave international mediators 48 hours to meet FARC rebels in a last-ditch effort to save three-year-old peace talks and avoid all-out war. "If by Saturday at 9:30 p.m., these efforts produce no satisfactory results, then the government will assume that this guerrilla group is not continuing talks," Pastrana said in a televised address to the nation. Pastrana said that U.N. special envoy James LeMoyne had asked him for one last chance to meet FARC leaders together with other international officials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
