This Tuesday, the quarterly report of the verification mission in Colombia was presented to the UN Security Council in Colombia on the implementation of the peace agreement. Within the framework of their exhibition, the representatives of several countries had the opportunity to intervene to refer to the progress of the process.
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One of the voices that was pronounced in this regard was that of John Kelley, representative of the United States. questioned the current government policy of peacearguing that the results are not very tangible.
During his participation, Kelley pointed out that armed groups are fragmenting and Taking advantage Peace conversations as an opportunity to expand their control and increase the production of illicit crops.
“The total peace policy has not yielded measurable results. Armed groups are being divided and are using conversations to expand their control and increase coca production. The United States remains cautious with respect to negotiations with terrorists and transnational criminal organizations,” projection.
The United States also emphasized the need for these groups to demonstrate a true commitment to peace and abandon their irregular activities.
“It is essential that these illicit armed groups show their true intentions and that they adopt concrete measures to achieve peace. Transnational justice mechanisms are important processes, but we must also advance in this with greater urgency. Previous peace processes have made it clear that having a security strategy is essential to pressure the legal armed groups to negotiate and avoid impunity for their abuses,” projection.
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The special representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, recriminated on Tuesday the government of the Andean country for not having advanced in a better implementation of the 2016 peace agreements, that would have avoided the resurgence of the internal armed conflict since January.
“If the agreement had been implemented more deeply in the last eight years, we would not have situations such as those lived today in the Catatumbo or Cauca,” Massieu said, who distributed responsibility among the executives of Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), Iván Duque (2018-2022) and that of Gustavo Petro (since 2022).
The UN special representative in Colombia insisted today, during a session that each quarter the Security Council dedicated to the peace agreements, in which “Trust” in that from the house of Nariño “Keep working in cooperation with the other party (the FARC)” to move towards the end of the conflict.
The extensive internal armed conflict in Colombia has aggravated in the last three months by clashes between the ELN guerrillas and the Dissidencies of the FARC in regions such as Catatumbo (northern Santander), where disputes have caused the forced displacement of at least 64,000 people and the death of one hundred more -among them, several peace signatories -according to official data.
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