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Tue 09 Sep 2008Progress reported in talks over Bolivian conflict
BOLIVIA:BOLIVIAN OFFICIALS and regional leaders said yesterday they had made progress in talks aimed at resolving a crisis that has risked escalating into civil war.
Both sides said they had made advances in the dispute between the central government and regional opposition politicians over regional autonomy, the distribution of revenues from natural gas and the new constitution being sought by Evo Morales, Bolivian president and the country's first indigenous head of state.
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