Analysts says the government of President Juan Manuel Santos is currently trying to heal old wounds from the country's bitter conflict.

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Sudan is fighting a bitter conflict against the SPLA-North, a rebel group that wants to be part of independent South Sudan.

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But the bitter conflict has continued unabated and Congolese government troops, backed by thousands of UN peacekeepers, have failed to defeat the FDLR rebels.

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Mr Mutsolgov says the war in Georgia found little support in Ingushetia, not long ago engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with North Ossetia.

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The pair conferred as criticism grew of US inaction over the situation in Syria, and as the country's bitter civil conflict claimed ever more lives.

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Al-Hakim had always propagated a message of peace, calling on Iraqis to stop taking part in the bitter sectarian conflict that followed the fall of Hussein.

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