Colombia: Three years of the Peace with Legality Policy – World – Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports

Coaching and help for the farmers within the Division of Nariño for the commercialization of guinea pigs at residence. Picture courtesy of the Land Restitution Unit below the Authorities of Colombia

* Miguel Rodriguez, Colombia’s Ambassador to Việt Nam 

In the present day, I want to share with you that since Mr Ivan Duque took workplace as President of Colombia in August 2018, the Colombian authorities has totally dedicated to the implementation of the Peace Agreements signed in 2016 with the previous FARC guerrilla. These agreements have been carried out via the adoption of the “Peace with Legality Coverage”; a really profitable program meant to remodel the territories most affected by violence and poverty via the implementation of integral and coherent actions aiming to ensure a peaceable coexistence of our individuals, and to make sure the safety of the rights of the victims. These territories are residence to six.6 out of the 48 million Colombian residents.

Throughout the first three years of the “Peace with Legality Coverage”, Colombia has achieved concrete and verifiable outcomes with respect to justice and authorized ensures; political participation and social reincorporation of former combatants; help for victims; unlawful crop substitution packages; improvement plans with a territorial strategy; and integral rural improvement involving a number of features resembling infrastructure, demining, social funding, and environmental initiatives. All of the above-mentioned outcomes have been achieved below a gender, ethnic and humanitarian-based strategy, and with the sturdy help of the worldwide group.

Relating to justice and authorized ensures, the Colombian authorities has ensured and revered the independence of the establishments and has operated below the precept of harmonious collaborations between the distinct branches of energy, particularly on cases associated to the Transitional Justice System (Particular Jurisdiction for Peace); a set of mechanisms to ensure the correct of victims to fact, justice, reparation, and non-repetition.

As President Duque remarked, the primary lesson learnt from Colombia’s peace course of is that ‘the constructing of peace wants, unfailingly, that ideas of fact, justice, reparation and non-repetition are utilized rigorously and with out hesitation’. On this line, the federal government permitted greater than US132.4 million in 2020 to help the Transitional Justice System.

To help the political participation of former combatants, The Nationwide Electoral Council recognised the authorized standing of the so-called “communes” political occasion. This political occasion created by the previous FARC guerrilla at present holds 10 seats within the Congress of the Republic granted as a part of the peace settlement. Moreover, in 2019, the “Communes” occasion participated within the final electoral course of for native authorities, the place they offered 308 candidates with a few of them having been elected.

Final August, 16 particular transitions peace constituencies have been created for the Home of Representatives to additionally make sure the political participation of the victims of the territories most affected by violence.

It’s clear for the Colombian authorities that peace constructing must be inclusive and depend on the territories. Because of this, necessary advances have been made within the restitution of land to those that have been dispossessed or who have been displaced by actors of the nation’s armed battle: greater than 152,800 hectares have been restituted to date; 220,000 residents participated within the formulation of the “Improvement Plan with a Territorial Method”, a plan that prioritizes and organizes improvement initiatives with US$2.3 billion invested within the 170 municipalities most affected by the battle.

The Colombian authorities has totally supported roughly 14,000 former combatants by giving continuity to the 24 territorial Areas for Coaching and reintegration that have been initially established as transitory housing options, aiming to ensure the continuity of the reincorporation course of. By this time, the Nationwide Reincorporation Council has permitted 3,201 productive tasks (particular person and collective) involving greater than 7,249 individuals.

The Integral Program for Unlawful Crop Substitution has contributed to the struggle towards medication with greater than 44,425 hectares changed via voluntary crop substitution in 56 municipalities to this point. There are at present a number of tasks for financial reactivation and environmental and forest improvement plans underway to enhance the standard of lifetime of the agricultural communities. The Colombian authorities is working to remodel the countryside with a number of methods that embrace strengthening manufacturing; enhancing productive infrastructure and entry to productive belongings; facilitating entry to native markets; and selling producers associations and enterprise plans for small rural companies.

Lastly, I want to spotlight the decided and everlasting help of the worldwide group to the implementation of Colombia’s peace settlement, particularly to the United Nations Group, to the members of the Safety Council, in addition to to the regional organizations, and lots of good friend international locations.

In October 2021, in her intervention earlier than the UN, Colombia’s Vice President and Minister of International Affairs, Marta Lucia Ramirez, requested to increase the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for one yr extra, beginning on October 31 of 2021. She additionally highlighted the function of the UN and expressed her appreciation for “the dedicated work of the Mission to advance in the direction of peace with legality. Its report acknowledges the federal government work with the communities to design improvement plans and options to the unlawful economies, in addition to the reincorporation based mostly on gender perspective”.

The report of the UN Safety Council is up to date each three months and particulars the excellent advances within the aforementioned areas, in addition to different areas that the “Peace with Legality Coverage” has managed to implement.

The federal government of Việt Nam has been monitoring the implementation of the settlement via its delegation to the Safety Council of the United Nations. As a Non-Everlasting Member, Việt Nam values the progress that Colombia has made within the implementation of the settlement via the financial and social packages talked about above.

The Colombian society is decided to proceed the trail of peace, justice and not-repetition, strengthen our democracy and search the welfare of our residents and coming generations. VNS