At the end of its visit to Colombia, the UN Security Council have full confidence in the peace process.
La Reforma, Meta. May 5, 2017. At the close of the UN Security Council visit to Colombia, its actual President, the Uruguayan Ambassador Elbio Roselli stated “Our absolute confidence in Colombian people who are desperately seeking to confirm their peace process." "It is expected to meet the D +180…
Statement by the President of the UN Security Council
New York, May 11/ 2017. During its visit to Colombia from 3 to 5 May 2017, the Security Council welcomed the opportunity to engage in dialogue with President Santos and senior representatives of the Government of Colombia, leaders of the FARC-EP, members of Congress representing the spectrum of…
UN Mission delivers first arms lay-down certificates.
Bogotá, May 12, 2017. - A first group of 12 members of FARC-EP received this Friday from the UN Mission the certificate of the individual arms laydown process ending, which allows them to formally begin their reincorporation to civilian life. In turn, the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace…
After decades without seeing each other, members of guerrilla and their family reunited in Colombia.
La Paz, Cesar, May 21, 2107. “It is time for us to establish ties of reconciliation, times for friendship between us; it is the time to hug each other. It is the moment of everything!” says with broke voice and tears on her eyes the sister of a FARC-EP member who stopped seeing him 21 or 22 years…
UN Mission ready to meet new deadlines for the laying down of weapon
Bogotá, June 1, 2017. The UN Mission in Colombia is ready with all its logistical deployment and is in intense preparations to accomplish the commitments of the new deadlines agreed between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP. The Mission has a total of 44 containers and 8 storage located in…
Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Colombia
New York, 8 June 2017. The Secretary-General is encouraged by the progress in the implementation of the peace accord in Colombia and in particular, the completion yesterday of the delivery to the United Nations Mission of the first 30 per cent of the arms of the FARC-EP. The Secretary-General…
The UN Mission in Colombia has stored in its containers 30% of FARC-EP weapons
Bogota, 8 June 2017. Yesterday, the timeline for the laying down of arms process, agreed between the National Government and the FARC-EP on 29 May, was complied with in the 19 Transitional Local Zones for Normalization (TLZN) and 7 Transitional Local Points for Normalization. In accordance with this…
UN Mission in Colombia delivered certificate of laying down of arms to 305 members of FARC - EP
Facatativa, June 12, 2017. This Monday, 305 members of the FARC-EP took a new step in their process of reintegration into civilian life upon receiving the certificate of the laying down of individual weapons by the General Javier Pérez Aquino, Chief of Observer of the United Nations Mission in…
“The peace agreement expectations are fulfilling”, Jean Arnault, Head of the UN Mission in Colombia
La Elvira, Cauca. June 13, 2017. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN, Jean Arnault and Pablo Catatumbo, Member of the Secretariat of the FARC-EP, spearheaded the act of laying down of individual weapons in the zone for normalization, La Elvira - Cauca. Colombians and the…
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Balance of the laying down of weapons process by FARC-EP to June 14
PRESS RELEASE UN MISSION IN COLOMBIA – BALANCE OF THE LAYING DOWN OF WEAPONS PROCESS BY FARC-EP TO JUNE 14 Bogotá, June 14, 2017. The beginning of the second phase of the arms laydown process corresponding to an additional 30% took place yesterday, June 13, in the in the zone for normalization, La…
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Balance of laying down of weapons process by FARC-EP to June 16
(Bogotá, June 16, 2017). The second phase of the laying down of Individual weapons by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC -EP), that began last Tuesday in La Elvira, in the department of Cauca, concluded today Friday in the 26 Transitional Local Zones for Normalization and…
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs visits Colombia
New York, 19 June 2017. On Monday the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman will begin a four-day trip to Colombia to visit the United Nations Mission in Colombia to learn first-hand about the progress and challenges of the peace process implementation and to demonstrate…