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Colombian leader orders humanitarian convoy to return

"Protecting people in the border zone remains the Colombian government’s priority, therefore, the trucks are returning," the country's foreign minister said
Colombian President Ivan Duque  GIAN EHRENZELLER/EPA-EFE
Colombian President Ivan Duque
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BOGOTA, February 24. /TASS/. Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said on Saturday that President Ivan Duque ordered the trucks with humanitarian assistance for Venezuela to return back from the border with Venezuela.

"Measures were taken upon direct instructions by President Duque. Protecting people in the border zone remains the Colombian government’s priority, therefore, the trucks are returning," the minister told reporters in the city of Cucuta on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.