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Arboleda Niño

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2022-06-02
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  1. “We believe that all States Members of the United Nations must take the responsibility to ensure that the various accountability processes in place in Ukraine operate in a coordinated manner. We must promote initiatives that consistently emphasize the protection of victims and the full exercise of their rights. Colombia is a model for a process that, with international support, ensures accountability and enables justice to address serious violations of international law. We trust that both the Security Council and other United Nations organs, as well as Member States themselves, can strengthen and institutionalize, in a joint and coordinated manner, the international legal principles on which accountability is based in order to consolidate and safeguard one of humankind’s greatest achievements.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source

  2. “The Prosecutor noted that those institutions have the necessary capacity to deliver justice for serious crimes of international concern that may have been committed on our territory or by our nationals. Taking into account all of the progress it has made, Colombia is a member of the Group of Friends of Accountability following the aggression against Ukraine, and in that capacity we align ourselves with the statement of the representative of the Marshall Islands on the Group’s behalf. Our primary concern since the aggression began has been to seek actions that the international community can take in order to ensure that the crimes committed do not go unpunished.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source

  3. “Fourthly, while crimes that occurred in the past must be addressed, we must bear in mind that States have many other obligations. Detailed planning is therefore vital in order to identify long-term sources of funding to deliver results that make such processes irreversible. Fifthly, the participation of women, indigenous communities and communities of African descent and other vulnerable groups is crucial to the success of any such process. In October 2021, the Prosecutor of the ICC took the decision to close the preliminary examination concerning my country that had been open since 2004. In doing so, the Prosecutor reaffirmed that our judicial institutions, namely, the ordinary and transitional justice institutions, were adequately equipped for the proper administration of justice and met international standards.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source

  4. “That framework also taught us about the advantages of focusing our investigative efforts on macro-cases in order to clarify accountability and patterns of commission of those types of crimes, especially by those with the highest level of responsibility. Thirdly, it is clear to Colombia that all efforts made in the area of accountability and the fight against impunity at the national level must correspond to measures taken on the international stage and be permanently coordinated with multilateral bodies. Our country has therefore benefited from the support of both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations system in general, resulting in achievements that have been sustained over the long term.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source

  5. “The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the Truth Commission, the Unit for the Search for Persons Deemed as Missing and the Victims Unit were created with the objective of guaranteeing the rights of victims, ensuring their participation in the various processes and operating under the fundamental principle that there is no path to peace without the recognition of responsibilities and the guaranteed rights of victims to truth, justice, reparation and non-recurrence. Secondly, we could not have developed the current institutional framework without our previous experiences with the Justice and Peace Law of 2005, which addressed the grave violations committed by armed groups.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source

  6. “Ms. Arboleda Niño (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): We welcome this debate, which highlights the pertinence of accountability when the international community is confronted with grave violations of international law. In this era of accountability, the efforts of the United Nations should focus on strengthening and rendering more effective the existing mechanisms designed to address crimes committed in the context of armed conflict and other situations of violence, as well as to ensure reparations for victims and the prevention of new conflicts. In that context, we would like to highlight some of the lessons learned in Colombia. First, the transitional justice arrangements under way in Colombia have at their core the victims of the serious crimes committed over years of violence in the country.”

    2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source