{{Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said he was ready to start negotiating peace with the country’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), “as soon as possible”.}}<\/p>\n
The announcement comes a day after the ELN released a Canadian hostage it had been holding for months, Gernot Wober.<\/p>\n
Santos hailed the rebels’ release and said “the government is ready to start a dialogue with the ELN as soon as possible,” in a statement released by his office on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Santos had conditioned any peace talks with the ELN on freeing Wober and all other captives it holds in the nation’s jungles. <\/p>\n
ELN leaders have expressed interest in starting peace negotiations similar to those currently under way with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. <\/p>\n
It is not known how many hostages the group holds.<\/p>\n
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