Colombia - Security Council, 10031st meeting

Adopting resolution 2798 (2025) by recorded vote of 13 in favour, 2 abstentions, Security Council extends UN Verification Mission in Colombia for one year.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 00:43:11
• Production Date: 31 October 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS VERIFICATION MISSION IN COLOMBIA - UNVMC
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACE PROCESS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; VERIFICATION; CONFLICT; TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
• Geographic Subject: COLOMBIA
• MAMS Id: 3489759
• Parent Id: 3487437
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10031 COLOMBIA 31 OCT 2025 PM

Description

The Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for one year, even as most Council members decried the reduction of its scope.

Speaking before the vote, the representative of the United Kingdom — the penholder on this issue — said that the Mission’s mandate “should evolve in line with the situation on the ground so that it can fully fulfil its primary objective of monitoring implementation of the peace process”. He noted that the text “focuses the Mission’s tasks on fundamental drivers of conflict in Colombia while continuing to call for full implementation of the [2016 Final Peace Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace]”.

The Council then adopted resolution 2798 (2025) (to be issued as document S/RES/2798(2025)) by a vote of 13 in favour to none against, with 2 abstentions (Russian Federation, United States). While renewing the Mission’s mandate until 31 October 2026, the organ decided to discontinue the expansion of that mandate to monitor ceasefires as set out in resolution 2694 (2023) and its associated resources. (For background, see Press Release SC/15376 of 2 August 2023.)

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UN Meetings Coverage

S/2016(53)

S/2025/595

S/PV.10031