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STORY: UN / COLOMBIA WRAP
TRT: 04:49
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
11 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu addressing Council
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMIC):
“After the signing of the agreement, there was a brief absence of violence in the territories. In the absence of a determined effort by the State to fill the gaps that remained after the abandonment of arms by the former FARC, the gradual expansion of other armed groups began. An expansion that continues today. As a result, today there are complex conflict dynamics in several areas that affect the daily lives of communities, especially indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.”
5. Med shot, Ruiz Massieu addressing Council
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMIC):
“Insecurity is clearly the main obstacle to the reintegration and success of the peace agreement. Since the signing of the agreement, 421 signatories have been killed. Faced with this situation, I cannot but reiterate the Secretary-General's call for all armed actors to respect the life, well-being and freedoms of communities and those who have already decided to follow the path of peace.”
7. Wide shot, Council
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Tovar, Representative of the high contracting party to the Commission for the Follow-Up, Promotion and Verification of the Implementation of the Final Agreement (CSIVI):
“Violence in the territories continues to destroy the lives of entire communities and further limits the capacity of the present authorities to carry out their responsibilities. The involvement of minors in the conflict, violence against reinstated women and people from ethnic communities is a major concern. The clashes between illegal armed groups in dialogue with the Government, generate violence in rural areas and serious obstacles to the implementation of the agreement.”
9. Wide shot, Council
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“Here it has been said that there is again violence in the areas where the peace agreement was made. They are the same areas, violence has not expanded in Colombia, it has been increasingly geographically concentrated. We do not have a national conflict. We have regional conflicts that have been in the same geographical areas for decades. And the question we would have to ask ourselves is why?”
11. Wide shot, Council
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“In Colombia, it is believed that violence is normal, and that peace is a matter for strangers, something alien to humanity, a kind of pact that they might call satanic, demonized, communist, the extreme right, say. In Colombia, peace is seen as something revolutionary.”
13. Med shot, Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego addressing Council
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“Colombia today, according to OECD statistics, is the most unequal country in the world. That is why it is violent. As long as equity is not built, which mean to build democracy, violence will continue to replace peace accords with dead bodies.”
15. Wide shot, Council
16. Tilt down, United Nations Headquarters
17. Pan right, President Petro’s delegation arrival
18. Wide shot, President Petro walks up to podium
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“A peace process is a social struggle; it is a political struggle. Despite having written sentences that are signed, despite having placed them for consideration and care by the United Nations Security Council as a unilateral declaration of State, many of its paragraphs, of its objectives, of its purposes, are in Colombia not a consensus, not an agreement, but a struggle yet to be waged. A struggle that is not only of politicians, but that is of society itself. The right to live in peace is a social struggle in Colombia.”
20. Wide shot, sculpture unveiling
21. Tilt down, sculpture and President Petro’s delegation walking away
Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego today (11 Jul) told the Security Council that Colombia is today, “the most unequal country in the world,” and said, “as long as equity is not built, which mean to build democracy, violence will continue to replace peace accords with dead bodies.”
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMIC) Carlos Ruiz Massieu told the Council that after the signing of Peace Agreement in Colombia in 2016, “there was a brief absence of violence in the territories,” but added that “in the absence of a determined effort by the State to fill the gaps that remained after the abandonment of arms by the former FARC, the gradual expansion of other armed groups began.”
As a result, Ruiz Massieu said, “there are complex conflict dynamics in several areas that affect the daily lives of communities, especially indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.”
The Special Representative told the Council that “insecurity is clearly the main obstacle to reintegration and the success of the Peace Agreement.”
He said 421 signatories have been killed since it was signed.
The UN envoy recalled the courage demonstrated by thousands of former fighters who laid down their arms, as well as the Government’s important work in supporting ex-combatants and their families.
Also addressing the Council, Diego Tovar, a representative of one of the signatories of the Peace Agreement, said, “violence in the territories continues to destroy the lives of entire communities and further limits the capacity of the present authorities to carry out their responsibilities. The involvement of minors in the conflict, violence against reinstated women and people from ethnic communities is a major concern. The clashes between illegal armed groups in dialogue with the Government, generate violence in rural areas and serious obstacles to the implementation of the agreement.”
President Petro said, “violence has not expanded in Colombia, it has been increasingly geographically concentrated. We do not have a national conflict. We have regional conflicts that have been in the same geographical areas for decades. And the question we would have to ask ourselves is why?”
He said, “in Colombia, it is believed that violence is normal, and that peace is a matter for strangers, something alien to humanity, a kind of pact that they might call satanic, demonized, communist, the extreme right, say. In Colombia, peace is seen as something revolutionary.”
Earlier today the President Petro participated in the unveiling of the Kusikawsay Monument, a gift to the United Nations from the Republic of Colombia.
There, he said, “a peace process is a social struggle, it is a political struggle. Despite having written sentences that are signed, despite having placed them for consideration and care by the United Nations Security Council as a unilateral declaration of State, many of its paragraphs, of its objectives, of its purposes, are in Colombia not a consensus, not an agreement, but a struggle yet to be waged. A struggle that is not only of politicians, but that is of society itself. The right to live in peace is a social struggle in Colombia.”
The Kusikawsay Monument was built by melting down weapons that were in the possession of the former FARC guerrillas and were part of the surrender and demobilization process eight years ago.
