MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Sunday, the Colombian government and the FARC reached an agreement on a peace deal to end over five decades of fighting. The deal was signed the following day in Colombia’s port city of Cartagena.
“The Council suspended the application of EU restrictive measures against the 'Fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de Colombia' ('Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia') known as 'FARC' on 27 September 2016,” the statement, published on the Council’s website, said.
The FARC has been on the EU terrorist list since June 2002. Entities on the list are subject to asset freezes by the European Union. EU persons and entities are banned from doing business with those on the list or making economic resources available to them.
Colombia was mired in a half-century war between the FARC and the Colombian government, which has claimed lives of a quarter of a million people. The two parties began peace talks in November 2012 and signed a historic ceasefire agreement in Cuba on August 24.
