The President of Columbia Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
bbc.com
Half his country may not support his efforts at peace, but Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos now has a Nobel Peace Prize for pursuing a deal to end the longest-running war in the Americas, the CNN reports.
Santos accepted his award Saturday after brokering a deal to stop the fighting in the 50-year conflict with the leftist rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known by its Spanish acronym, FARC.
"After six years of serious and often intense, difficult negotiations ... this agreement marks the beginning of the dismantling of an army and its conversion into a legal political movement," he said at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
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