Colombia - Security Council, 10141st meeting

As Colombia nears presidential elections, Security Council speakers call for calm, full implementation of historic 2016 peace accord.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 01:37:27
• Production Date: 21 April 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: MIROSLAV JENCA
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS VERIFICATION MISSION IN COLOMBIA - UNVMC
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; VIOLENCE; TERRITORIAL CLAIMS; PEACE AGREEMENTS
• Geographic Subject: COLOMBIA
• MAMS Id: 3559043
• Parent Id: 3557953
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10141 COLOMBIA 21 APR 2026 AM

Description

While hope for peace is alive in Colombia as the country prepares for presidential elections, the Security Council today heard that achieving it — and making it last — still requires the full implementation of a peace accord signed almost 10 years ago.

Following decades of conflict, the Government of Colombia and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo — often abbreviated as FARC-EP — signed the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace on 24 November 2016. The following year, the Council authorized the creation of a UN Verification Mission in Colombia to oversee the accord’s implementation.

However, the Council narrowed the scope of the Mission’s mandate in October 2025, even as that year saw the attempted assassination — and later passing — of one of Colombia’s presidential candidates. Nevertheless, the country held largely peaceful congressional elections on 8 March 2026.

• Briefer: Mr. Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia
• Briefer: Ms. Olga Lucía Quintero Sierra, General Coordinator, Catatumbo Campesina Association
• Statement: Her Excellency Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Colombia
• Statement: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Statement: Liberia (also on behalf of: A3)
• Statements: China, France, Latvia, Pakistan, Panama, Russian Federation, Greece, United States of America, Denmark, Bahrain

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S/PV.10141