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Article: Colombia looking for ways to free up aid suspended by the United States
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- July 4, 2003
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Dateline: BOGOTA, Colombia
The Colombian government is searching for ways to reach an agreement
with the United States to free up military aid suspended after the
nation failed to protect Americans from a new international war crimes
court, President Alvaro Uribe said Friday.
The United States has given this embattled South American nation nearly
US$2.5 billion in the last three years to battle drug trafficking
and a leftist rebel insurgency. About US$5 million of the US$600 million
promised to Colombia this year was suspended.
Yet officials are confident a compromise with Washington will be reached.
A preliminary agreement has been drafted, Uribe told RCN Radio, and ...