Colombia's congress, military support peace talks with FARC .
Colombia's congress, military support peace talks with FARC .
Thursday, 23 August 2012 08:59 Adriaan Alsema
Leaders of Colombia's political parties and armed forces on Wednesday expressed their support for President Juan Manuel Santos if the head of state chooses to initiate peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the FARC.
The broad political and military support followed statements by former President Alvaro Uribe who had said Santos had already begun negotiations with the rebels in Cuba.
Uribe and his supporters in Congress vociferously rejected possible peace talks with the FARC but found themselves politically isolated as all political party leaders and the commander of the armed forces in response expressed their confidence in Santos and support for the possibility of opening negotiations with the rebels.
"The president isn't alone in his quest for peace. Congress opens the doors to the house of democracy to debate roads to peace," said Roy Barreras, Congress president and prominent U Party senator.
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