UN to send team of experts to monitor conflict deescalation in Colombia
UN to send team of experts to monitor conflict deescalation in Colombia
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Jul 23, 2015
The United Nations announced on Tuesday that it will send a team of experts to Cuba for the verification and monitoring of efforts to deescalate violence between Colombia’s FARC guerrillas and the government.
UN Under-Secretary General Jeffrey Feltman met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin to talk about the UN’s role in attempts to deescalate violence and a possible agree to a truce for the duration of peace talks with the FARC.
The sponsor countries of the peace talks, led by Norway and Cuba, had asked the UN and the South American UNASUR to monitor and verify both sides’ efforts to deescalate the violence that has undermined the talks’ credibility and popular support.
UNASUR had already appointed former Uruguay Defense Minister Jose Bayardi to accompany the negotiations that ultimately seek a definite end to violence between the military and the FARC.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/un-to-send-team-of-experts-to-monitor-conflict-deescalation-in-colombia/
