Colombian President on Nobel Prize: "it came out of the blue"

Bogotá (Colombia), Oct 28 (EFE) - (Camera: Edwin Morales). For the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, the Nobel Prize he was recently awarded came "out of the blue" and was the key to give a "new impetus" to the peace process in the country, stalled after the rejection suffered by the agreement with the FARC in the October 2 referendum.

The president acknowledged that he did not expect to get the award and when he received the call from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, he thought "it was a joke," that someone "wanted to make a joke." SHOTLIST: EXCERPT (subtitled in english) OF THE INTERVIEW WITH COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS ON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HE WAS RECENTLY AWARDED.



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