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Bolivia Conciliation
Talks Begin
LA PAZ - Bolivians are
hopeful Thursday with
the beginning of the
dialogue between the
government and the
departmental prefects to
find a peaceful solution
to the prolonged
political crisis
gripping the country.
As established in the
pre-accord signed
between the Executive
and opposition regional
leaders from Tarija,
Santa Cruz and Beni,
talks begin today in the
central city of
Cochabamba at 07:00
hours.
President Evo Morales
called Wednesday for
territorial authorities
to start negotiation,
but air transport
scheduling impeded their
arrival to the capital
of the homonymous
department.
Government spokesman
Ivan Canelas told press
that faced with that
situation, both parties
decided to postpone
those talks by one day.
According to the
spokesperson, members
from the ministerial
cabinet, experts in
those matters and top
authorities from the
country's different
territories will be
present in negotiations.
Experts will advise the
three established
commissions, linked to
the main points of the
dispute: autonomies and
the new Constitution,
the Direct Tax on
Hydrocarbons, and a pact
to hold vacant posts in
the judiciary power.
Mario Cossio, opposition
prefect in the southern
region of Tarija, inked
the pre-agreement with
the government as a main
document for the
beginning of those
talks.
The nation's Vice
President Alvaro Garcia
stated that the idea is
to create three
negotiation groups on
the mentioned main
issues of the conflict.
As a result of the
signing of that
pre-accord, road blocks
carried out for several
weeks by opposition
groups in the department
of Santa Cruz, Beni and
Tarija started to be
lifted yesterday. |
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