(MENAFN) Cuba has ignored the Colombian government's request for it to send back 10 Marxist rebel commanders on the island for peace talks, after Bogota blamed their National Liberation Army (ELN) for a deadly car bomb.
Cuba's foreign minister said the country would respect the protocols of the negotiations it has been hosting and was consulting with both parties and the guarantors of the talks.
The protocols provide minimum security guarantees for guerrilla leaders to return to mountainous or jungle areas of Colombia with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, providing security from military attack for an agreed period.
Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Saturday that its extradition request did not come within the context of the unsuccessful peace talks in Havana, but rather in response to a "criminal act that violates human rights".
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