UN Human Rights Council supports peace process in Colombia

UN Human Rights Council supports peace process in Colombia

The Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) approved this Thursday a resolution in favor of greater international support for the implementation of the peace process.

Through its account on the social network without voting.”

Furthermore, the relevance of applying the recommendations given by UN experts was highlighted with the purpose of “putting an end to threats and attacks once morest human rights defenders, líderIt is social, ex-combatants and political opponents.”

Petro presents report on the Peace Agreement to the UN

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, presents the report on the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement to the UN Security Council.

The president arrived on Wednesday in New York, United States (USA), to participate in the session, where he reported on the progress and challenges for the application of the agreement.

According to a note from the Presidency from Colombia, Petro met last Monday with spokespersons for the Comunes party in order to evaluate the implementation of the Peace Agreement.

“We prepare a report to the United Nations Security Council on the implementation of the agreement and the changes it requires and that must be discussed by the people to reach a national agreement as stated in the unilateral declaration of the State, which is binding and commits us to humanity. “, expressed the head of state at that time through his account on the social network X.

New strategic framework for total peace

For his part, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo noted that the report was made with more than 30 government entities and with the other high part, the former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP).

“We held several technical tables with National Planning and the Foreign Ministry. “This report develops a new strategic framework for total peace, under three axes that we are reviewing: agrarian reform, the transformation of the territory and the clarification of the complete judicial truth,” he detailed.

According to one Press release According to the Colombian Foreign Ministry, the current Government is the one that has made the most progress in implementing the agreement, but there are still “serious obstacles that must be removed.”

They are going to propose an adjustment to the strategic implementation framework that was designed for 15 years and “very seriously consider the possibility of extending the implementation period of that framework plan.”

“The president will be very clear that Colombia remains committed to the implementation of the agreement, but connected to the policy of total peace, because the conflict has evolved. In that sense, he will request that the unanimous support and accompaniment of the UN Security Council continue, but also with the guarantees that will be proposed to advance the implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement,” added the chancellor.


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2024-07-13 12:50:40

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