Colombia's Santos: Talks with FARC are on right path
Colombia's Santos: Talks with FARC are on right path
Published: October 19, 2013 Updated 28 minutes ago
By GABRIELA MAYER — dpa
PANAMA CITY — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday that his government's peace talks with the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were going well despite delays.
"We have been talking for almost a year," Santos said at the Iberian-American summit in Panama City. "I thought that in a year we could get through the points on the agenda we agreed upon. That has not been the case, but we are making progress."
Santos said he saw "the glass half-full."
"Never before in an attempt (to talk) with FARC had we made so much progress in very complex issues. But at the same time it has taken too long, and we would like to move faster," he said.
FARC have been fighting Colombian authorities for more than 50 years. Talks were formally launched on Oct. 18, 2012, in Oslo and continued in earnest a few weeks later in Cuba.
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