Spains former PM and Uruguays former president to verify Colombia peace process
Spain’s former PM and Uruguay’s former president to verify Colombia peace process
written by Adriaan Alsema March 23, 2017
Spain’s former Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and Uruguay’s former President Jose Mujica will lead the commission verifying whether Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas comply with a peace deal signed in November last year.
According to a press release sent out by the Colombian government and the FARC, the two senior politicians will be formally appointed on March 30.
Their task will be to verify whether both the government and the FARC stick to the peace agreement that ended 52 years of armed conflict between the parties last year.
Colombian conflict monitoring NGOs CERAC and CINEP will be in charge of the Technical Secretariat of the verification and monitoring commission. The Colombian NGOs will be accompanied by the American Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of the University of Norte Dame from Indiana, Illinois.
The two former presidents and the NGOs will assume their role as monitors in addition to the United Nations, which is in charge of the FARC’s 180-day demobilization, disarmament and reintegration process.
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