Delegates from both sides meet in Mexico City and agree on a temporary ceasefire to create peaceful conditions ahead of the next round of talks in Cuba.
Colombian government is holding peace talks with the ELN and has declared a bilateral ceasefire with dissidents who reject a 2016 peace deal signed by the FARC.
Bogota suspend legal effects of ceasefire decree after the country's last recognised rebel group says it didn't discuss any bilateral ceasefire with the government.
President Gustavo Petro's government held a first round of peace talks with the ELN in December.
Dissidents of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC say they will lay down weapons and won't target security forces until January 2, Bogota's peace commissioner says.
Negotiations between Colombia's government and the National Liberation Army look to end the group's part in Colombia's internal conflict, which has run for almost six decades.
The pact is the first significant achievement in nearly two weeks of peace talks in Venezuela.
The aim is to confront criminal groups operating internationally with a focus on various illegal industries, which requires collaboration with other countries, the interior minister said.
Talks with leftist guerrillas in Venezuela are part of President Gustavo Petro’s promise to bring "total peace" to Colombia.
President Nicolas Maduro agrees to be the guarantor of Colombia's talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, the last active rebel group in a country torn by decades of conflict.
Petro's hard-fought victory in June elections brought Colombia, long ruled by a conservative elite, into an expanding left-wing fold in Latin America.
"What I request is a ceasefire that will be bilateral," to allow for talks "to bring an end to the war in Colombia," President-elect Gustavo Petro tells the South American country's last active guerrilla group.
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