YARI PLAINS, Colombia – Leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia gave their unanimous support on Friday to a peace agreement reached last month with the government.
The rebel leader known by the alias Ivan Marquez made the announcement Friday at the conclusion of a week of deliberations by the guerrillas in a remote rural area of southern Colombia.
It was the FARC’s last conference as a rebel army and was supposed to provide a roadmap of how the group would compete electorally once it turns over its weapons to United Nations-sponsored observers over the next six months.
President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader alias Timochenko are expected to sign the agreement Monday in the Caribbean city of Cartagena.
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s lawmakers have decided to proceed with work to ban abortion and have rejected a proposal to liberalize the current restrictive law.
The vote Friday followed a debate the day before on two drafts by civic groups: one to fully ban abortion and one to allow termination of pregnancy through its 12th week.
Poland’s current law allows abortion through the pregnancy’s 12th week if the woman’s health or life is endangered, the pregnancy results from a crime, or if the fetus is irreparably damaged.
Associated Press
