Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said the FARC group had been granted an extra 20 days.

Under a peace agreement signed late last year all weapons had to be surrendered to the UN by Tuesday.

Farc commanders had argued that they could not meet the original deadline because of delays in building special camps to house demobilised fighters.

The deal, which was reached after four years of talks in Cuba, about 7,000 fighters in 26 transition zones were to have handed their arms to the UN by 30 May.


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