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“I am immensely grateful for the comments made during this meeting as a representative of my country, a member of the Government and a spokesperson of the President, as well as in my personal capacity. As the Secretary-General said, we continue to bet on building peace in Colombia. With our accomplishments, we are showing the world that conflicts and violence can be resolved not only by signing agreements but by implementing them with political determination, with strict planning and a focus on results. I invite members of the Council, as the Ambassador of India and others did, to continue supporting us on our journey, including in the face of the change of Government that will take place in August. Let us continue to build on what has already been built.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“That was the first time a public entity or official has been recognized for their contribution to the development of a peaceful resolution to the conflict. We have noticed that the report of the Secretary- General mentions aspects that do not fall within the scope of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia’s mandate, one such aspect being the Ejército de Liberación Nacional, which is of great concern to us all. For that reason, I cannot fail to lament the events that took place in Arauca and in Cali a fortnight ago. In addition to other serious terrorist acts on the part of that organization, those incidents once again demonstrate the lack of willingness of the group towards achieving peace.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Without any prior legal obligation, our Government established a peace and gender earmark so as to know exactly which resources are being allocated in that regard. Furthermore, beyond the provisions of the Final Agreement and its implementation plan, we have made significant achievements in our women’s equity policy, where we have drawn up a road map of what we must do over the next seven years. Finally, I would also like to highlight that we continue with our robust implementation of the ethnic chapter of the agreement, promoting 97 commitments, 14 of which — nearly 14 per cent — have been completed. At the end of last year, the President was recognized by the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia.”
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“Many of those projects also offer care spaces — environments that allow mothers to participate in productive activities without sacrificing their caretaking duties. I recall the Council’s visit to Cartagena with the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. That model is one in which we comply with the standards set because it is led by three United Nations agencies focusing on women and children, as well as the United Nations Development Programme. Of the 51 gender indicators in place, 57 per cent have already been met or show significant progress. The average record of compliance on the gender front stands at 47 per cent, while taking into account that it is part of a 15-year implementation process.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“The Government of President Duque Márquez remains steadfast in its allocation of the necessary resources for the functioning of the three components of the transitional justice system and ensuring progress is made in the clarification of crimes under the jurisdiction of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. That is something that all Colombians desire and in which we have great confidence. To that end, we have already been working with Mr. Ruiz Massieu and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace on an operational road map to monitor sanctions. In relation to the issue of women and peace and security, we have gender provisions in each of the chapters of the implementation process. There are 3,265 women included in the reintegration process, almost 80 per cent of whom are already involved in productive projects.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“For those more than 60 special measures, we have the largest pro rata budget in the National Protection Unit as compared to the rest of the protected populations. The measures taken by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in that regard were not for the adoption of further measures, but to finance those that had already been decided upon. We have a deep respect for transitional justice and its independence. From day one, victims have been the cornerstone of our policy of peace with legality. Guaranteeing their right to truth, justice and reparation, as well as non-repetition, is a governmental and a national purpose.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Every single death causes us great pain, and not one of them can be justified. Thanks to those efforts — and in its worth putting it into context that Colombia has gone through many disarmament processes — the present disarmament process is the one in which we have witnessed the fewest such adverse effects. Precisely half as many ex-combatants in the reintegration process have been affected. And that decrease was not just for the past year, but for the past three years. Nevertheless, we must continue with those efforts, as it is not as a result of the instructions or precautionary measures issued by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace that such work began. The work that has been going on for as long as President Duque Márquez has been in office.”
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“Thanks to the special protection we provided the candidates of the Comunes party — formerly the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia party — none were killed or kidnapped, and neither did any withdraw their candidacy. We are now using that experience to plan the security and protection of the Comunes party candidates and, obviously, the 16 seats, which, in accordance with enacted legislation, are guaranteed for the victims and their representatives, as is the will of the Colombian people. For the Colombian Government and all State entities, the security of ex-combatants and their families has always been, and will continue to be, a priority. As the President has said and as I have reiterated, the sole objective of all the efforts we have made is for there to be zero threats and zero deaths.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“That is not our plan. In that case, we had been recommending those relocations. Both of the relocations were negotiated and agreed upon. All State entities participated and security considerations were taken, including biosanitary and physical security measures. In both cases, the final locations were acquired by the Colombian Government, and the housing and productive projects are beginning and, in our view, are successful relocations. Political participation is an essential guarantee, both for those being reintegrated and for the victims. Members of Congress and Comunes party representatives have been carrying out their functions as party representatives. We note that this year’s elections are not our first elections. We have already held some local elections, which were some of the most peaceful elections in the past 60 years.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“That level of coverage cannot be found anywhere else in Colombia. Along the same lines, the Government has made a voluntary commitment to provide housing for that population through various means — loans, subsidies and home improvement funds, for those with homes, in addition to the investment of $2.2 million in housing benefits for the approximately 1,800 people on the territorial areas. It is also worth noting that, since 2019, when the former territorial areas for training and reintegration were set to legally conclude, we carried out a sound and detailed analysis of each area. Many such areas, we concluded, could not continue to exist, some of them for security reasons, as their location was envisaged only for the short term. That is the case for the areas in La Macarena and El Yarí. There was no surprise there, no unexpected threat.”
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“As of December 2021, three and a half years in to our Administration, we can speak of achievements that make this reintegration process irreversible — 70 per cent of reintegrated people are economically self-sustaining, that is to say, more than 9,000 ex-combatants. Obviously, the sustainability of those productive projects, in some cases, depends on people having legal ownership of the land. In order to ensure the sustainability of the projects from a business perspective, we have invested and embedded $20 million in the form of technical assistance. Almost 4,000 projects are receiving that support. In addition, almost 60 per cent now have access to the education they sought, and 77 per cent are linked to work programmes. More than 88 per cent are covered by health care and social security, including psychosocial support.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Last week, President Duque Márquez met with his entire Cabinet last week, and I am scheduled to meet, on 25 and 26 January, with all the agencies responsible for the implementation of the policy of peace with legality. With regard to reintegration, Colombia continues to be an inspiration in terms of implementation, as the Secretary-General has termed it. One of the areas in which that is so is the process of reintegration of more than 13,000 demobilized men and women, having enshrined in our national development plan that we will support each and every one in all guaranteed areas until these have reached an appropriate level for their reintegration into society.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“With regard to the previously existing illegal groups that have always fed off the drug trade and other illegal economies, which are, among other dreadful things, the main perpetrators of the murders of social leaders and others, we are working to address that issue in parallel to the implementation of the agreement. Arauca is an example of that, as noted by Mr. Ruiz Massieu. In Arauca, it is members of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional who are having an impact, carrying out attacks. The relevant department, comprising seven municipalities, is handling investments of $450 million. The four municipalities with development programmes with a territorial focus alone manage investments of $125 million. For those municipalities, that sum corresponds to 100 years of investment, were it not for the implementation of the agreement.”
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“We reiterate that, although what we are doing what is necessary for the implementation of the agreement, and that is, without a doubt, a great step forward, we should not deceive ourselves by insinuating or believing that those sources of violence are due, in any way, to non-compliance with the agreement. The agreement did not guarantee the identification of all drug trafficking routes, or the deactivation of the cartels that have been operating in Colombia since before the signing of the agreement, or those operating in other countries, but have an impact on Colombia.”
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“This Administration is responsible for approximately 26 per cent of the implementation, and we have far surpassed that level in all relevant indicators. Nevertheless, I want to underscore what Special Representative Gilmore said, that the foundation has been laid so that we can continue to build on what has already been built. I am pleased that the Council, like us, appreciates the importance of the visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as it served as an affirmation regarding Colombia’s preliminary examination and as recognition that the Colombian institutional framework has met international standards and is sufficiently transparent. The Council and the Secretary-General’s report touch upon other forms of violence.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“I take this opportunity to reiterate, on behalf of President Duque Márquez, that we will continue to honour the agreement, as we have been doing, guided by our vision and policy of peace with legality. The President continues to believe that this is a unique opportunity to resolve the structural difficulties that we should have confronted decades ago, with or without an agreement. To that end, we have followed the guidelines of making explicit our political will, to conduct robust long-term planning and to deliver achievements that will make the process irreversible, as the Russian Ambassador stated. And we should succeed. The implementation duration is 15 years. In other words, the next three Administrations must continue along the path charted by our Constitution.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“The Secretary-General visited one of the territorial areas for training and reintegration and noted our focus on the security of ex-combatants and their families and the leadership that has enabled the private sector and the international community to focus their efforts. We are fulfilling all of the guarantees offered in this model, which is unprecedented because we extended the period and ensured a minimum to provide them for the 13,000 ex-combatants. At the conclusion of his visit, the Secretary-General acknowledged to President Iván Duque Márquez the historic advances in each area of implementation and declared that the prospects for peace dividends in Colombia were very promising.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“By order of the Constitutional Court, each Government has a free hand to implement the agreement in accordance with its other policies, including those related to legal guarantees, political guarantees, support for victims of the work of reintegration, voluntary substitution of illicit crops — which became successful after three and a half years of enormous efforts — and developing a territorial approach through comprehensive rural development, in which multipurpose cadastral and land registration has made progress without having any precedent on which to rely. At the end of the term, we will have registered 50,000 land titles, which is equivalent to what has been done over the past 16 years. We have also made progress in humanitarian demining. All of those advances have integrated cross-cutting gender and ethnic perspectives.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“At our request, the Security Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia by adopting resolution 2574 (2021), which extended the mandate to include the monitoring of compliance with sanctions issued by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. In addition, on his visit, the Secretary-General was able to witness progress in the implementation of our policy of peace with legality, which is to say progress in compliance with the peace agreement.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Let me reiterate, on behalf of President Iván Duque Márquez and the Colombian people, our gratitude to the Secretary-General for his recent visit to Colombia and for the witness he bore to the commitment and the multiple actions of our Government to make progress on a truly stable and lasting peace. We thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2021/1090), and we thank Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing today and for his commitment to our country. I appreciate the statements we have heard from members of the Council. The year 2021 was a one of definitions for Colombia.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Today, like 13,000 other former combatants, she participates in the Colombian pension system, and like almost 13,000 former combatants, she participates in the Colombian health system. Luz Marina has received support for her housing, which was not contemplated in the agreement or in subsequent legislation. President Duque Márquez included it in the national policy, and now Luz Marina owns an apartment. Luz Marina has also been a beneficiary of the education guarantee. Like half of the former combatants, Luz Marina has, in just three years, attended university and obtained two graduate degrees. She has also been a beneficiary of our efforts to provide protection. The unfortunate death of her husband and the deaths of 70 other incarcerated convicts have allowed us to keep in jail the material and intellectual drivers of the conflict.”
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“Marina ran for municipal council in her hometown and today she is a candidate for the Congress of the Republic of Colombia. For three years, we have provided assistance to Luz Marina to help her raise her children. She has two children. Following the death of Luz Marina’s husband, they received assistance from the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare. Both are students. One is studying engineering, and the other wants to be a social communicator and has been accepted to the University. Luz Marina has received full economic support from the Government, contrary to what was provided for when our Government came into office. Under our Government, the amount of financial support provided has been expanded. Luz Marina has led three productive projects.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source
“Mr. Archila (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): I greet the members of the Security Council, especially the new ones, and thank them for their continued support to the peacebuilding process in my country. I thank you, Madam President, in particular for convening this meeting, and I thank Ms. Luz Marina Giraldo, formerly known as Yesenia, in particular. I am pleased, Madam President, that you chose a person as illustrative as Luz Marina to inform the Council about the reintegration process in Colombia. Luz Marina has had the legal guarantees required under the process. Luz Marina was incarcerated when the process began, at which time she left jail. Throughout the process she has been assisted by a lawyer paid for by the Colombian State, which is an example of the political guarantees in place.”
2022-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8951 (2022) · source