Colombia: UN mission chief stresses need to advance implementation of peace deal

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace of Colombia, arising from the peace agreement with the FARC's extinct guerrilla group, has granted amnesty for the crimes of rebellion and damage to others in about twenty trials to Ricardo Palmera Pineda, better known as Simón Trinidad. The former leader of that group has already been imprisoned for more than 20 years in a maximum security prison in the United States, barely a fraction of his sentence to 60 ye…

Bogotá. The UN Special Envoy for Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, said yesterday that a more effective implementation of the historic peace agreement signed in 2016 with the extinct guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would have prevented the current episodes of violence in the South American country.

Petro announces that it will bring to the UN the Colombian state's failure to comply with the Peace Agreement.Agencia Period... Mar, 22/04/2025 - 17:43 The president said that the state is not fulfilling its commitment to humanity and will denounce the situation before the UN Security Council. Tags { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DataFeed", "name": "", "description": "", "creator": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Agencia Period…

The UN Secretary General’s special representative in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, denounced the Andean government on Tuesday for failing to make progress in better implementation of the 2016 Peace Accords, which would have prevented the escalation of the internal armed conflict that has been going on since January, EFE reported. “If it is [...] The entry The UN criticizes Colombia for “not having made enough progress in implementing the peace …

UNITED NATIONS – The violence experienced in Colombia so far this year reflects the shortcomings in the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement between the government and the one that was its main guerrilla, said the UN Special Representative for that country, Carlos Ruiz Massieu. “If the agreement had been [...] This article Colombia still requires compliance with its Peace Agreement was originally published in IPS News Agency

Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia. Photo: Foreign Ministry. Before the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), Colombia’s Foreign Minister, Laura Sarabia, gave a quarterly review of the Peace Agreement and asked to continue putting faith in its implementation. The meeting, which took place in New York, started with the intervention of Carlos Ruiz Massieu, special representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia and head of the UN Verific…