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DATELINE: 09 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
09 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC):
“Regrettably, eleven more combatants have been killed since the last report was issued. And as the Security Council heard repeatedly during its recent visit, social leaders, as well as entire communities, particularly Indigenous and Afro Colombians, still suffer the full impact of persisting violence and the limited presence of State institutions in various regions. In my visits to Cauca, Valle del Cauca and Norte de Santander, this call for security was a common plea from ethnic groups, local authorities, civil society and the private sector.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC):
“It is essential to build on the progress made so far and to give clear evidence of their will for peace. Any hostility against the civilian population sends the opposite message. It erodes trust between parties and society, as was evidenced by the condemnable acts of violence against the indigenous population in Cauca, which led to the partial suspension of the ceasefire by the National Government.”
6. Wide shot, Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia addressing Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Colombia:
“We are committed to overcoming violence and committed to moving towards a peaceful Colombia. In these troubled times, with manifestations of violence and wars, Colombia has set out to be a country that promotes life, that promotes peace, which promotes reconciliation. We work on this with conviction because many of us have also been victims at some point.”
8. Zoom out, end of Council session
9. Pan left, Colombia Diversa Executive Director Marcela Sánchez and Maltese representative at the stakeout podium
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcela Sánchez, Executive Director, Colombia Diversa:
“I hope that the members of the Security Council will express their strong support for the rights of LGBTQ people in Colombia; to our inclusion in the establishment of peace; to the work of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace; to the full implementation of the First National Action Plan of Resolution 1325 in Colombia; that the UN Verification Mission support the implementation of the gender approach of the Final Peace Agreement and include specific indicators on the situation of LGBTQ defenders. And finally, that this Council ask the Colombian Government to collect and analyse data at the national level on all violence committed against LGBTQ people in order to offer better political responses in the future.”
11. Pan right, Sánchez walks away
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and head of our political mission there, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, today (9 Apr) told the Security Council that “regrettably,” eleven more ex combatants have been killed since the last report of the Secretary-General on Colombia was issued.
Ruiz Massieu said, “social leaders, as well as entire communities, particularly Indigenous and Afro Colombians, still suffer the full impact of persisting violence and the limited presence of State institutions in various regions.”
Regarding dialogue between the Government and the FARC-EP dissident group Estado Mayor Central (EMC), the Special Representative said it was “essential to build on the progress made so far and to give clear evidence of their will for peace.”
“Any hostility against the civilian population,” he said, “sends the opposite message” and “erodes trust between parties and society, as was evidenced by the condemnable acts of violence against the indigenous population in Cauca, which led to the partial suspension of the ceasefire by the National Government.”
Ruiz Massieu told Council Members that Colombia has reached an important juncture in relation to its ambitions to implement the 2016 Final Peace Agreement, as key challenges remain to translate political will into results on the ground.
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia said his government was “committed to overcoming violence and committed to moving towards a peaceful Colombia.”
In these troubled times, Murillo Urrutia said, “Colombia has set out to be a country that promotes life, that promotes peace, which promotes reconciliation.”
Earlier, before addressing the Council on behalf of Colombia’s civil society, the Executive Director of Colombia Diversa, Marcela Sánchez, told reporters that she expected Council Members “will express their strong support for the rights of LGBTQ people in Colombia; to our inclusion in the establishment of peace; to the work of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace; to the full implementation of the First National Action Plan of Resolution 1325 in Colombia; that the UN Verification Mission support the implementation of the gender approach of the Final Peace Agreement and include specific indicators on the situation of LGBTQ defenders.”
Finally, Sánchez, said she expected the Council would “ask the Colombian Government to collect and analyse data at the national level on all violence committed against LGBTQ people in order to offer better political responses in the future.”
