The World - News from Jan. 12, 1989
The Colombian government has signed a peace accord with the guerrilla group known as M-19, according to an official joint communique. Under the accord, M-19 pledges to maintain a countrywide truce and says it is committed to reconciliation. “It is the first step of a complicated process,” said politician Camilo Gonzales Pacheco, who attended two days of secret talks between the government and the rebels in the mountains of western Colombia. The accord, the first since President Virgilio Barco Vargas took office two years ago, was signed by presidential adviser Rafael Pardo Rueda and M-19 leader Carlos Pizarro Leon Gomez.
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