The United States revoked its designation of the Colombian group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, allowing US officials to work with members of the group as they shift into political life.The move, which Congress had been notified of earlier in November, comes days after the Marxist rebels and Colombia’s government celebrated the five-year anniversary of a peace deal, which ended five decades of violence. In 2018, the group took part in a United Nations-supervised decommissioning of the last of its accessible weapons.In a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said removing the “terrorist” designation will make it easier for the US to support the implementation of the accord.
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