PARIS (AFP) – Colombia is set to become the 37th member of the OECD, the organisation’s Secretary General Angel Gurria said.
“Hopefully, we are going to confirm this in the next few hours, we will … have Colombia welcomed,” Mr Gurria told reporters in Paris.
The move, if confirmed, would take place a year and a half after the country’s half-century civil war came to an end in 2016, when a peace deal with the country’s biggest guerrilla, the FARC, was ratified.
The government has since been in talks with the last remaining rebel force, the ELN, to build on a ceasefire.
