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STORY: UN / COLOMBIA
TRT: 01:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED – UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Pan right, aerial view of United Nations headquarters
25 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, pan left Security Council vote
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia:
“I’d like to tell the members of the Council that the will to work with Colombia on this matter is essential to the success of the process. We know that by keeping the focus on its mandate we will achieve convincing, definitive results for peace in Colombia.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia:
“This concrete mandate of the Security Council will benefit all Colombians and will contribute to build confidence in a country determined to overcome the aftermaths of decades of conflict that has caused too suffering for generations.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. Zoom out, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Foreign Minister of Uruguay and President of the Security Council
8. Wide shot, Minister Holguín Cuéllar and Minister Nin Novoa walk to the stakeout position
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia:
“Today is a very important day for Colombia. With the resolution adopted today by the Security Council, we see that light that means the day of the end of the conflict is nearer. As Colombian, I know that I can absolutely see in all Colombians the optimism and the illusion to finally achieve the peace after 50 years of conflict.”
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, notepad
The Security Council unanimously adopted a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a UN mission to oversee the ceasefire and cessation of hostilities process between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels.
With this new resolution, the 15-members UN body today (25 Jan) moved to set up a United Nations political mission in Colombia, approving a team of international observers to monitor disarmament should the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) reach a final agreement to end Latin America’s longest armed conflict.
Speaking to the Security Council members, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar said, “I’d like to tell the members of the Council that the will to work with Colombia on this matter is essential to the success of the process. We know that by keeping the focus on its mandate we will achieve convincing, definitive results for peace in Colombia.”
With this measure, the Council established a political mission for 12 months to monitor and verify the definitive bilateral ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, and the laying down of arms, acting just days after the two sides jointly requested the UN to consider such a measure in light progress during three years of Havana-based peace talks.
The Colombian diplomat also said, “this concrete mandate of the Security Council will benefit all Colombians and will contribute to build confidence in a country determined to overcome the aftermaths of decades of conflict that has caused too suffering for generations.”
Through the resolution, the Council decides that the Mission would be made up of unarmed international observers, and a part of the tripartite mechanism that will monitor and verify the definitive bilateral ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, consistent with the wishes of the parties, beginning all monitoring and verification activities following the signing of a Final Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP.
Speaking to reporters outside the Security Council accompanied by Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Foreign Minister of Uruguay and current President of the Security Council, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar said, “today is a very important day for Colombia. With the resolution adopted today by the Security Council, we see that light that means the day of the end of the conflict is nearer.”
She stressed, “as Colombian, I know that I can absolutely see in all Colombians the optimism and the illusion to finally achieve the peace after 50 years of conflict.”
The FARC rebels have been in talks with the Colombian Government seeking to end a 51-year conflict that has left nearly a quarter of a million victims. Throughout the discussions, which started in Havana in 2012, negotiators have reached agreement on key issues such as the political participation, land rights, illicit drugs and victims’ rights and transitional justice.
