UN concern over Guatemalan peace deal

The United Nations mission in Guatemala has expressed concern that the Guatemalan government will not provide all the financial support for the country's peace process that it promised under last year's peace deal.

The senior UN official in Guatemala, Jean Arnault a Frenchmansaid there was little possibility that money approved by the government would be enough to meet all the agreed aims.

The government and left-wing rebels signed the peace agreement in December last year, ending a thirty-six-year civil war in which more than a hundred and fifty-thousand people were killed.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service