Colombia - Security Council, 9961st meeting

Despite Colombia’s progress in peacebuilding, communities, ex-combatants, political, social leaders remain under threat, Special Representative tells Security Council.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 01:30:44
• Production Date: 18 July 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: CARLOS RUIZ MASSIEU
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS VERIFICATION MISSION IN COLOMBIA - UNVMC
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; PEACE AND SECURITY; REFORMS; VIOLENCE; PEACEBUILDING; CIVILIAN PROTECTION; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; ARMED GROUPS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; PEACE AGREEMENTS
• Geographic Subject: COLOMBIA
• MAMS Id: 3426971
• Parent Id: 3426018
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 9961 COLOMBIA 18 JUL 2025 AM

Description

Despite Colombia’s notable progress since the signing of the 2016 peace accord — with overall violence receding from conflict-era levels — communities, ex-combatants, and political and social leaders remain under threat, the Head of the United Nations special political mission in the country told the Security Council today, urging a stronger State presence. 

“All Colombians aspire to build peace. That’s what I have seen over the last six years,” said Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, presenting his last briefing to the Council in this role. 

The 2016 Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace laid out a holistic road map to address the country’s deep-rooted structural drivers of violence, including the peaceful reintegration of over 13,000 former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army (FARC-EP) combatants. 

• Briefer: Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia
• Statements: All Council members, with Sierra Leone speaking on behalf of: Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Somalia
• Statement: His Excellency Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, Vice-Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Colombia 

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