Colombia's Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize in boost for troubled talks | Antigua Observer... - 0 views
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist guerrillas, a surprise choice and a show of support days after voters rejected a peace deal he signed with the rebels.
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Santos has promised to revive the plan even though Colombians narrowly rejected it in a referendum on Sunday.
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The fact that a majority of the voters said ‘No’ to the peace accord does not necessarily mean that the peace process is dead.”
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More than 220,000 people have died on the battlefield or in massacres during the conflict between leftist guerrillas, government troops and right-wing paramilitaries.
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Santos has used his two terms in office to open negotiations with rebel leaders in four years of talks.
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hopefully this award will help peace builders maintain the momentum needed to keep the process moving forward,” Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Director Dan Smith said in a statement.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. He accord the rebelling guerrilla to ceasefire. Although the majority of voters said no in the referendum, President promised that they would continue the peace process. His negotiations to ceasefire helped the peace process in the future decision and also have made sure people's safety. The Nobel Peace Prize adviced us to keep solving the Colombia Peace Process.