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February 28, 2000



Colombian Rebels Hope to Visit US, Cuba, China, Papers Say

San Vicente del Caguan, Colombia, Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's guerrilla negotiators hope to visit Cuba, China, the U.S., Canada and three Latin American countries to study their economic systems, top negotiator Raul Reyes said, according to Saturday's El Tiempo. The guerrilla negotiators returned Friday to their enclave in the southern part of the country following a three-week tour with government negotiators of Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and , the daily reported. Reyes said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia hoped a solution to the conflict in Colombia would lead to adoption of elements from some of the economies negotiators had studied on their tour, El Tiempo reported.

The FARC and the government are engaged in peace talks aimed at ending a four-decade conflict that's left 30,000 dead in the last decade.

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