Colombia will ask the UN Security Council to consider extending the peace agreement

Published at: 10/07/2024 01:28 PM

The Government of Colombia will ask the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) to consider extending by eight years the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016 with the former guerrilla group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP) announced the foreign minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo.

“We are proposing that there be an adjustment to the framework implementation plan that was designed to be implemented in 15 years and with the lags behind, we must seriously consider the possibility of extending the implementation period of that framework plan,” Murillo said of the proposal that President Gustavo Petro will present to the Security Council on Thursday.

He also announced a shock plan for the next two years to “accelerate and level up” the implementation of the Peace Agreement. “That crash plan is going to require some extraordinary and emergency measures,” Murillo said.

According to the measures and what that shock plan would consist of, members of the former FARC-EP secretariat, who met with the president last Monday, stated that Petro gave them some clues about the plan that will be built together with the peace signatories.

For now, the possibility of extending the 15-year deadline for the signed implementation will be considered and working on tables to work on “extraordinary and emergency measures” to speed up implementation.

Mazo News Team