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Leyva Durán

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2022-10-12
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  1. “Mr. Leyva Durán (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): I am going to be brief because members of the Security Council have all spoken for me. It is impressive. I hear China, and it is Colombia speaking. The same thing happened to me when I heard the United States, Albania and Mozambique. This is a miracle that needs to be shared across the planet. I met Mr. Rodrigo Londoño more than 30 years ago, when he was a combatant. Today he spoke not as a member of a party, but on behalf of a contracting party to the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, an agreement that Council members may think is only 10 or 15 pages long; it is more than 300. I had the honour — I do not know why — of participating in the negotiation and drafting of the Agreement.”

    2023-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9303 (2023) · source

  2. “Allow me simply to add something that comes from my heart. We are experiencing a scale of global problems not seen since the Second World War. I ask the Council to prevent the world from being destroyed. Allow me to say, I hope not foolishly, that some judgments are rendered more justly than others, and are generally wise if they are in the realm of magical realism. They are realistic and very real, even if they are magical — as shown in the works of our Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez. I urge the Security Council to intervene in a united manner to prevent the world from turning into the fictional village of Macondo, in which the legendary races, falsely believing themselves to be masters of the universe, end up condemning themselves to 100 years of solitude.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  3. “I would like to thank the members of the Security Council. We understand that peace in our country, which is in the Council’s hands, has become an example for the world — not only as a lovely idea that, in principle, has not encountered any major hiccups, but also because the Council, as a body, have never failed to act unanimously on it. It can be done — yes indeed it can. I will set aside other issues that would unnecessarily prolong my statement, since Council members can find that information in the report submitted for their consideration by the Verification Mission. Our thanks go to the Mission, and we hope that the Council will extend its mandate under the conditions requested. I want to express my most sincere appreciation to the Council on behalf on the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro Urrego, and my entire nation.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  4. “For those matters we will always turn to the Security Council. We are also taking the opportunity make improvements to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, an institution that the Council admires and commends. We seek make it into a court that requires the participation of all parties, combatants and non-combatants alike, as well as those directly or indirectly linked to the internal conflict, and that attends to them all. As an internationalized judicial body, it must fulfil its duty by ensuring the application of all procedural safeguards, without reversing the burden of proof. It must seek to establish the responsibility of individuals and the responsibility of the State, whether by action or omission. This will be a new chapter. A truth mechanism must be established that focuses on victims, reparations and non-repetition.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  5. “We want and seek it nationally, and we aspire to seek and find it beyond our borders. Meanwhile, the planet is heating up, and we have to be firefighters. We are concerned about the conflicts that delay the Paris timeline on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol and the outcomes of the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow. President Petro Urrego has explained how Colombia can be the world’s sponge — for peace, for universal peace. Locally, in order to continue setting an example and showing that we can do this, we resumed dialogues with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and we are reaching out to those who were left out of the agreement that we are implementing under the watchful eye and guidance of the Security Council.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  6. “Therefore, as the text further indicates, it is worthwhile in this case to uphold the principle of “non-regression” as well as the principles of “free determination, autonomy and self- government, participation, consultation and prior free and informed consent; social, economic and cultural identity and integrity, rights over land, territories and resources, which involve the recognition of their ancestral territorial practices, the right to restitution and strengthening of territoriality, the current mechanisms for legal protection and security of the land and territories occupied or owned ancestrally and/or traditionally”. I have placed this text on the desk of each Council member because it calls for a reflection on how, through dialogue, “total peace” can be achieved. President Petro Urrego calls it “total peace”.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  7. “In its subsection 6.2.1, entitled “Considerations” it is recognized that “the ethnic peoples have suffered historical conditions of injustice, resulting from colonialism, slavery and exclusion and from having been dispossessed of their land, territories and resources; that they have also been seriously affected by the internal armed conflict and the maximum guarantees need to be fomented for the full exercise of their human and collective rights in the framework of their own aspirations, interests and world views”.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  8. “Issues relating to gender equality, rights guaranteeing the free development of the person, protection of minors — girls, boys and youth — and rural women, the right to education, food independence, and the integration of regions that had previously been overlooked by the State into the nation are all exciting. We are focusing on the value of prospective justice, keeping in mind that our objectives are not limited to solving the problems of our contemporaries. We know that generations are linked in time, as the philosopher says, and that one era inevitably influences those that follow. That is why the Havana agreements are concerned with the rights of those who have yet to come. With regard to the important section of the agreement entitled “Chapter on Ethnic Perspectives” (section 6.2).”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  9. “In my homeland, that would be the small farmer, the Afro-descendant and indigenous peoples, together with the defenceless members of civil society who defend human rights and total peace, including a significant number of former combatants who have laid down their arms. We agreed to submit a formal proposal to the Secretary-General, which will be accompanied by a statement of purpose that will be difficult to overlook. It will be done. I continue to rejoice at the way in which the implementation of the accords is beginning to accelerate.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  10. “They are what led us — the Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia, our Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Mr. Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva, our Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mrs. Leonor Zalabata Torres and I — to meet with Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday to discuss convening a global conference of consumer countries of hallucinogens and other drugs, in order to raise awareness and take collective measures to solve a problem that should not be allowed to bring death to the weakest in the chain of a dirty business that ends up destroying lives, mostly of the innocent.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  11. “Accordingly, in his poignant address to the General Assembly on 20 September, President Gustavo Petro Urrego evoked a national reality that is worth remembering in this regard: “I come from one of the three most beautiful countries on Earth. There is an explosion of life there — thousands of multicoloured species in the seas, skies and lands. I come from the land of yellow butterflies and magic. Water cascades down the lush green mountains and valleys — but so do torrents of blood. I come from a country of blood- soaked beauty. “My country is both beautiful and violent. How can beauty co-exist with death? How can the biodiversity of life flourish alongside the dance of death and horror? Who is to blame for breaking the spell with terror?” (A/77/PV.4, p.18) “Narco-trafficking, narco-trafficking,” I say. We all know the vices of the world.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  12. “There is much to be said on the subject of illicit drugs. The Secretary-General’s report highlights that “[a]mong his administration’s priorities, the need for a revised approach to the issue of illicit drugs, both within Colombia and internationally, is one that President Petro Urrego has discussed. He has committed to prioritizing voluntary substitution over forced eradication, as envisioned in the Final Agreement, and to strengthening the National Comprehensive Programme for the Substitution of Illicit Crops” (ibid., para. 15). The fact is we have had enough when it comes to the violence caused by the infernal business of drug trafficking in the Colombian homeland. The uncontrolled international demand for drugs stemming from vice continues trouble us, as it sows death and desolation.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  13. “With regard to political participation, as the Secretary-General’s report rightly points out, “The Government presented a draft political reform aimed at ensuring, among other things, gender parity in Congress and political campaigns funded exclusively through public funds. The Government also presented, together with electoral institutions, a draft bill to reform the electoral code” (S/2022/715, para. 14). Implementation efforts in this area are very ambitious: guaranteeing rights that facilitate the exercise of political opposition (section 2.1 of the Havana agreements), democratic mechanisms for citizen participation (section 2.2), guarantees for mobilization and social protest (section 2.2.2), guarantees for reconciliation, coexistence, tolerance and non-stigmatization (section 2.2.4). The work before us is arduous but rewarding.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  14. “It has already demonstrated this intention by strengthening the National Land Agency, seeking the creation of the special agrarian jurisdiction, initiating the consolidation of the multipurpose cadastre and updating the rural property regime. The purchase of 3 million hectares to be delivered to the dispossessed has already begun. We understand that it is not possible for a Government that has been in power only 65 days to amend a plan that should never have deviated from the initial road map to begin with; still, progress in relaunching what had been agreed cannot be reversed.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  15. “The Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia has met with President Petro Urrego and Vice-President Márquez Mina, affirming the support of the United Nations for their efforts towards peace.” President Petro Urrego wanted it to be understood that a special time has come for Colombia: the time of “total peace” and the time of peace beyond our borders. With regard to the first chapter of the Havana agreements, on comprehensive rural reform, the Secretary-General’s report notes, in paragraph 9, how the Government of our new President “has emphasized that agrarian reform is one of its key priorities” and indicated that its implementation will be fundamental.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  16. “In his inaugural speech, President Petro Urrego reiterated his call upon political parties and Colombian society to build a national agreement in support of urgent changes. He has outlined his main priorities, notably his commitments to peace, including the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace; to reducing inequality; to governing with and for women; to ensuring zero tolerance for corruption; and to holding regional dialogues for local authorities and communities to contribute to policymaking. He has also pledged to transition towards clean energy and to protect the Amazon while also promoting a new global approach to illicit drugs.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  17. “Likewise, the commitment to issuing a unilateral declaration of statehood was made. But, on a wrong day for democracy, because democracy unfortunately sometimes gets it wrong, Dickens’s paradoxical quandary came to the fore: there was the worst of times, the age of foolishness, the epoch of incredulity and of darkness and the winter of despair. We stopped going to heaven to lead us to nothing. That is because on Sunday, 17 June 2008, someone who had received the order to tear peace to shreds took power. A destructive will was expressed at the ballot box, driven by a not-so-invisible hand from beyond our borders, which did us great harm. But, as paragraph 2 of today’s report notes, “On 7 August, Gustavo Petro Urrego was sworn in as President of Colombia and Francia Márquez Mina was sworn in as Vice-President.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  18. “In those days, the Security Council, as it had done at the time with the peace accord achieved in the Republic of Mali, took up the Colombian State’s proposal, made by its President, to transform the agreement into a formal document. It did so. The six agreed points, in addition to the protocols and annexes to the Agreement on the Bilateral and Definitive Ceasefire and the Cessation of Hostilities and the Laying Down of Arms between the national Government and the FARC-EP, were recorded on its own pages forever. It therefore included in its core documents the special agreements to which the State and the rebels had submitted in the light of common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and article 6 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 1949.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  19. “I would like to express my complete satisfaction at witnessing the way in which the work has been presented, that is to say, the report that I just mentioned, which, although it appears to be a continuation of what has come before, is in fact an evocation of the title of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. I had the honour of being involved in several Colombian peace processes, particularly the most recent one in Havana under the leadership of Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In key moments of the process, it gave the impression that, as in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, it was the best of times, the age of wisdom, the epoch of belief, the season of light and the spring of hope. We had everything before us; we were direct straight to heaven.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  20. “Mr. Leyva Durán (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): I extend my warmest greetings to the ambassadors, members of the Security Council. As representatives are all aware, I will refer to the report (S/2022/715) submitted to the Security Council by the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia on the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed between the Colombian State and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), in accordance with the provisions of resolutions 2603 (2021) and 2366 (2017), whereby the Security Council extended the political mandate requesting the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the Mission’s mandate every 90 days. The report before us today covers the period from 28 June to 26 September.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source