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Márquez Mina

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  1. “It is those challenges that encourage us to continue working for the real, lasting and sustainable peace that will lead all Colombians to live with love and joy. Together we will make dignity a habit, because we deserve to live a good life, and we wish to make Colombia a global leader of life.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  2. “Our ability to advance total peace will depend on our commitment to equality, equity, social justice, gender justice and, in general, the entrenching of democracy. We thank the Security Council for unanimously extending the mandate of the Verification Mission on rural reform and the ethnic chapter, which is an international endorsement of our commitment. However, we urge the United Nations to continue supporting the Government’s dialogue efforts with other actors in order to achieve total peace. Finally, I would like to propose and invite the Council to hold a meeting in Colombia in order to support peace from the territories and to learn on the ground about the challenges we face on a daily basis.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  3. “Fear, hatred and revenge have been passed down from generation to generation. Ethnic peoples, rural communities, politics, institutions, arts and culture have been weaned by the experience of violence, provoked or suffered. That is an undeniable reality that led us to understand that this total war required a broad vision of peace, which in our Government we have called total peace. This total peace seeks to overcome fragmentary peace by recognizing the achievements and progress of previous agreements, including the peace agreement. Total peace is the means that will allow us to reach historically excluded and marginalized territories in order to develop actions for social justice, material equality — actions that allow us to care for the territory as a living space and to combat climate change.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  4. “On this point, we urge the General Assembly to support the Colombian Government in finding a way forward, a new approach that will allow these peoples, communities, youth and women, in all their diversity, to live in peace and dignity, and not to live in fear in the territories. We ask the United Nations to open its doors to sincere dialogue, a new path that allows us to structurally resolve the systematic violation of human rights in the country. I call for progress not only in political dialogue, but also in terms of urban peace and equality, bringing about structural advances for Colombian society. Armed violence has affected our entire society. Nearly 10 million people, one fifth of the current population, are direct victims of the war. In every home in my country there are wounds and scars from what happened.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  5. “We cannot overlook the fact that these communities’ disproportionate treatment is the result of racial-profiling policies in the context of the armed conflict, which is also manifest in and reflected by the drug policy designed to fight the drug-trafficking phenomenon in Colombia. A new drug policy should have a focus on racial and gender justice that makes it possible to recognize and overcome the differentiated treatment of the populations and place respect for life, the elimination of violence against women, the strengthening of their economic autonomy and empowerment of their political participation at the centre of efforts to build peace and security.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  6. “As a result of this coordination mission, we have identified the lack of clear indicators to measure in concrete terms the progress achieved in the implementation of this chapter. One of our main challenges is to design indices that will help to develop actions towards historical reparation for ethnic communities, including indigenous, Raizal and Palenquero communities and people of African descent, who have all disproportionately experienced the effects of the armed conflict and structural racism in Colombia. The national Government, and in particular the Vice-Presidency has been designing racial justice policies that make it possible to close the gaps in equity and equality that the communities have experienced since the re-establishment of their territorial ethnic rights.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  7. “We are making structural changes that will serve as a foundation for “total peace”, with the total peace being understood as the implementation of the agreements already signed between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and the Colombian State, on the one hand, and as the progress made in dialogues with different groups that continue to disrupt life in the territories, on the other hand. Total peace will result from closing the inequity and inequality gaps in which our nation had been submerged. We, the Vice-Presidency of the Republic of Colombia, are in charge of coordinating inter-institutional and intersectoral coordination for the development and implementation of the commitments derived from the ethnic chapter for peace.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  8. “Our objective is to give special consideration for women in all their diversity, children and youth, the LGBTIQ+ population, people of African descent, Black, Raizal, Palanquero and other indigenous ethnic groups, Rom people, rural folk, families and households living in poverty and extreme poverty, people with disabilities, the homeless, the elderly and migrant populations. Many of these populations live in historically excluded and marginalized territories, which are also the most vulnerable to the impacts of the environmental crisis and the humanitarian crisis caused by the armed conflict.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  9. “With the support of Congress, we have been able to introduce a draft bill — and obtain approval in half of the debates on it — that seeks to have rural folk recognized as entitled to special constitutional protection. With the support of President Petro Urrego, on 4 January 2023 we adopted the law creating the Ministry of Equality and Equity. Through this new institutional tool, we are now committed to reducing the gaps in equality and equity gaps that exist in the country.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  10. “Our Government has set out a clear policy of democratization and distribution of 3 million hectares of productive land for the agricultural, agro-industrial and economic development of the country, with a view to recovery and the building of food sovereignty, in order to stop children from continuing to die of hunger and malnutrition in our country. These hectares will serve to guarantee access to land for the displaced, victims of discrimination, including people of African descent, ethnic indigenous peoples, and the Raizal and Palenquero communities, as well as women, youth and rural folk in general. Our Government recognizes rural folk as holders of rights.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  11. “Our central commitment is to safeguarding the lives of the entire Colombian population, to care for those who have taken up the defence of human rights as their main cause, and to protect communities caught in the crossfire. But none of this is possible without respecting those who have committed to and upheld their will for peace without de-escalating armed conflict and ensuring the dismantling of the criminal structures that perpetuate violence. Inequality in access to land for rural folk, as well as their being abandoned in general, has been one of the main drivers of the war in Colombia.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  12. “Today the democratic will to confront violence, social injustices and structural inequalities is calling on our Government of Change to craft policies for people that will make Colombia a world Power in favour of life. We propose alternatives that have deep roots in the earth because we come from diverse places where the inclemency of war and the politics of death have been the rule. Our ears and our hearts are connected to those places, attentive to their desperate cries of pain and to their forms of resistance amid a crisis that continues to weigh on us. That is why we support the initiatives of the communities that clamour for humanitarian agreements today and why we insist on the ceasefire and all scenarios of dialogue and political agreement that demand that we build a safe and peaceful country.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  13. “I would especially like to acknowledge the excellent work of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, the Mission’s presence on our territory and its actions in favour of victims, civil society, ethnic peoples, women and the former combatants who signed the peace agreement. The assistance from the international community and the Security Council in political, technical and financial matters has allowed the commitments of the Agreement to be supported and promoted even at times when political will was insufficient or scarce. I address the Council as a daughter of ancestral lands and as a spokesperson for the Colombian people and representative of a Government that has come to change the history of my country.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  14. “I welcome the Government of Japan’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month, and I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. I salute Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for all his efforts and support over the years to make peace in Colombia a reality. I would also like to greet the Secretary of the High-level Forum of Ethnic Peoples of Colombia, Mr. Armando Wouriyu Valbuena, representative of civil society, who is with us today and with whom we have worked for many years for peace, dignity and social justice for the ethnic peoples of Colombia and for the country itself.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source

  15. “Ms. Márquez Mina (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to start by thanking the Security Council, its permanent and elected members and the international community for their constant and resolute work in support of the initiatives and actions that the Colombian State has undertaken in the area of peace and security, which is clearly reflected in the voting on resolution 2673 (2023), whose adoption we just witnessed. This unanimous vote demonstrates the Agreement’s importance for the world. Secondly, I would like to express my gratitude for the expressions of solidarity in relation to the acts of violence that we are still facing in our country and which seek to undermine our efforts for peace, social justice and the deepening of democracy in Colombia.”

    2023-01-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9240 (2023) · source