Colombia's FARC rebels to meet Kerry in Cuba during Obama trip - sources

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HAVANA/BOGOTA, Jumada II 12, 1437, March 21, 2016, SPA -- Members of Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a negotiator for the rebels and two Colombian sources with knowledge of the peace talks said on Sunday, according to Reuters. A meeting with Kerry will be the first time a U.S. secretary of state has met the negotiators from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who have been talking peace with the Colombian government in Havana for more than three years. A source at Colombia's Office of the High Commissioner for Peace and another source close to the government confirmed the Kerry meeting and said it would take place on Monday. Both the rebels and Colombian government negotiators will also go to an exhibition game between Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays and Cuba's national team on Tuesday, the source at the high commissioner's office said. That game will be attended by President Barack Obama, who on Sunday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years. However, FARC negotiator Pastor Alape said he was not aware of an invitation to attend the baseball game. He said details of the Kerry meeting would be worked out on Monday, and it was not clear if the Colombian government would be in the room at the same time. Washington designated the FARC as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, and many of its leaders have been indicted in the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking. --SPA 03:38 LOCAL TIME 00:38 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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