SANGOLQUI, Ecuador: Colombian government is set to sit down for a first round of peace talks with the ELN rebel group Wednesday, seeking to end a 53-year conflict that has killed more than 260,000.

The negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN)—the country's last active rebel group—mark a new milestone in the Colombian peace process, after President Juan Manuel Santos's government sealed an historic accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in November.

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