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After
Vote, ICP Asks
Colombia's
Holguín About
Urabeños, She
Calls Them a
Gang
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 25 --
After the UN
Security
Council
quickly passed
a resolution
on Colombia
for unarmed
international
observers
responsible
for the
monitoring and
verification
of the laying
down of arms
on January 25,
Inner City
Press asked
Colombia's
foreign
minister María
Ángela Holguín
Cuéllar two
questions.
Are there any
names yet for
the UN envoy
post, should
he or she like
the observers
come from
CELAC? And
what about the
Urabeños,
which some
call
paramilitaries
and some call
merely a gang?
Holguín said
it will be up
to Ban Ki-moon
to propose
names -- and
derived the
Urabeños as
narco-traffickers,
to be
frontally
opposed.
Video
here.
The
resolution,
which Inner
City Press put
on Scribd as
soon as it was
passed,
“decides to
establish a
political
mission to
participate
for a period
of 12 months,
as the
international
component and
coordinator of
the
above-mentioned
tripartite
mechanism (the
Mission),
headed by a
special
representative
of the
Secretary-General
of the United
Nations and
decides
further that
the Mission
will be a
political
mission of
unarmed
international
observers,
responsible
for the
monitoring and
verification
of the laying
down of arms,
and a part of
the tripartite
mechanism that
will monitor
and verify the
definitive
bilateral
ceasefire and
cessation of
hostilities,
consistent
with the Joint
Communique,
beginning all
monitoring and
verification
activities,
which will
commence the
12 month
period,
following the
signing of the
Final Peace
Agreement
between the
Government of
Colombia and
the FARC-EP."
In its
resolution,
the Security
Council
“requests the
Secretary-General
to initiate
preparations
now, including
on the ground,
and to present
detailed
recommendations
to the
Security
Council for
its
consideration
and approval
regarding the
size and
operational
aspects and
mandate of the
Mission,
consistent
with the Joint
Communique. as
soon as
possible and
then within 30
days of the
signature of
the ceasefire
agreement by
the Government
of Colombia
and the
FARC-EP, in
light of its
provisions and
looks forward
to the
contributions
of Member
States of the
Community of
Latin American
and Caribbean
States (CELAC)
to the
Mission.”
The
Security
Council in
conclusion
“requests the
Secretary-General,
based on the
reporting of
the special
representative
to the
Secretary-General,
to report to
the Security
Council on the
implementation
of the
Mission's
mandate every
90 days after
the start of
its monitoring
and
verification
activities and
on completion
of the Mission
and expresses
its
willingness to
consider
extending the
Mission upon
the joint
request of the
Government of
Colombia and
the FARC-EP.”
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