Colombian government and ELN rebels meet in Havana to restart peace talks

Government pledges judicial and political steps' to enable talks to resume with nation's last guerrillas broken off three years ago

Colombia's new government and members of the nation's last guerrilla group have taken steps towards restarting peace talks that were suspended three years ago in Cuba.

Newly elected President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla group, has promised to establish total peace" in Colombia and sent a high-level delegation to Cuba this week to meet with National Liberation Army (ELN) representatives there.