Bogotá. On behalf of the Colombian State, which submitted to the UN Safety Council eight years in the past the peace settlement signed with the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), President Gustavo Petro right now requested a seven-year extension from this physique to completely implement the settlement.
On a whirlwind journey to New York, the Colombian head of state denounced earlier than the worldwide group the governments of Presidents Juan Manuel Santos (2014-2018) and Iván Duque ((2018-2022) for having sabotaged the execution of the settlement, achieved after six years of arduous negotiations with the guerrillas in Havana, Cuba.
Petro made a crude overview of the violence that has been entrenched within the nation for hundreds of years and recalled that solely between 1948 “when there was a preferred riot after the assassination of the liberal chief Jorge Eliécer Gaitan till right now, violence has left 700 thousand useless on the battlefields.”
Stressing that Colombia holds the title of “essentially the most unequal nation on this planet,” Petro mentioned that some of the notable manifestations of this phenomenon happens between the middle and the periphery, the place territories which have at all times been excluded don’t have any alternative for financial and social improvement.
He mentioned that if these territories had been taken care of by the State as agreed in Havana, the components that generate violence that also persist in numerous areas of the nation, the place illicit economies proceed to thrive within the face of the impotence of the State, wouldn’t exist right now.
With a purpose to promote the primary themes of the 2016 settlement (agrarian reform, coca crop substitution, justice that provides reality and reparations to victims, in addition to ensures to protect the lives of former combatants), the top of state introduced that he’ll current to the legislative department “a quick observe proposal to switch the legal guidelines tending to speed up compliance with the 2016 settlement.”
Petro insisted that this is a chance to succeed in a consensus throughout society, together with the opposition, and to hold out the key reforms that the nation wants.
Amidst the celebrations for the nationwide soccer group’s passage to the Copa América remaining, Petro’s speech earlier than the UN had a major impression, since – as famous by most analysts – the president launched concrete and viable initiatives for a consensus.
Specifically, the proposal to remove the present fragmentation of justice, which at the moment investigates these chargeable for crimes dedicated throughout the battle in three completely different jurisdictions, was highlighted, in an effort to make method for a single “closure courtroom” that provides ensures of reality and reparation to the victims.
As soon as the president’s speech, which lasted about 40 minutes, was over, Diego Tovar, a signatory of the settlement and at the moment a political chief of the Comunes social gathering, spoke on behalf of the extinct FARC.
After making a stark evaluation of how violence has been directed towards the signatories of the peace, with a complete of 406 former guerrillas killed in eight years, Tovar referred to as for higher coordination between the federal government businesses chargeable for implementing peace, stressing that there are 53 state entities, “most of which have important lags.”
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– 2024-07-19 20:09:29
