Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali would fail'

A dissident rebel group has backed down from its threat to disrupt the UN biodiversity summit in Colombia later this year.

The Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country's 2016 peace agreement, said on Wednesday it would order its militants not to target the Cop16 negotiations that are due to begin in Cali in October.

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