Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Common, told the Security Council that current Authorities initiatives mirrored an “vital re-centreing” of the peace course of.
These embrace a speedy response plan with improvement initiatives, public investments and companies.
“I welcome preliminary indications that the plan will focus strongly on rural reform so as to remodel conflict-affected areas, in addition to on strengthening safety ensures,” Mr. Ruiz Massieu mentioned.
He famous that the peace structure – established underneath the Remaining Settlement for Ending the Battle and Constructing a Steady and Lasting Peace – notably the follow-up and verification fee, will play a key function in dashing up implementation.
Addressing structural causes
Mr. Ruiz Massieu, who additionally heads the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, welcomed the Authorities’s dedication to advancing rural reforms, which have the “transformative potential” to deal with the structural causes of the battle.
“Daily, for instance, extra land is being distributed and formalized for these in want, bringing the promised advantages of peace to landless peasants and people dispossessed of it through the battle,” he mentioned.
Nonetheless, regardless of this and different constructive steps, the outcomes up to now stay modest in relation to the overarching objectives of the Peace Settlement, because the Authorities itself has acknowledged.
“I’m additionally involved about reviews that peasant organizations working to advance rural reform have been receiving threats from unlawful armed teams,” he warned.
Mr. Ruiz Massieu additionally urged motion on the ethnic chapter of the peace accord, designed to deliver peace dividends to Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities, and deal with the disproportionate impression they suffered through the battle.
Transitional justice
On transitional justice, the Particular Jurisdiction for Peace continues its essential work in serving to society transition from struggle to peace, he knowledgeable Council members.
“The nation stays expectant as to the approaching levels of the method, particularly the issuance of its first sentences to these liable for severe crimes,” he mentioned, noting that the mechanism’s success will lie in “attaining a fragile steadiness” between a number of components.
These embrace the rights of victims, the authorized safety of these underneath its jurisdiction, and the pace and rigor with which justice is delivered.
The Authorities additionally bears a significant duty to make sure that all situations are in place for the sensible implementation of sentences as soon as they’re issued, he added.
Obstacles stay
Mr. Ruiz Massieu additionally emphasised that the complicated safety state of affairs in a number of components of Colombia continues to hinder peacebuilding.
In some areas, signatories to the Settlement and social leaders are nonetheless targets of violence, stress, and threats from armed teams combating for territorial management and strategic routes tied to illicit economies.
He added that some communities stay caught within the crossfire and subjected to “condemnable phenomena” such because the recruitment of minors, displacement, and confinement.
New challenges, such because the imposition of “social management,” notably over ladies and women, have additionally emerged, Mr. Ruiz Massieu mentioned, relaying “painful testimonies” from ladies about being advised the way to gown or paint their nails.
“The complexity and fluidity of the battle dynamics in numerous areas and the insecurity it produces for the affected populations require a complete and complementary method,” he careworn.
