Security Council resolution 2673 (2023) [on expansion of the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia to include monitoring of the implementation of the comprehensive rural reform and ethnic chapters of the Final Peace Agreement]
Symbol: S/RES/2673 (2023)
Date: 2023-01-11
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/78 [302] COLOMBIA--POLITICAL CONDITIONS
S/ X Identical letters dated 19 January 2016 from the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (S/2016/53).
Subjects: UN Verification Mission in Colombia|Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace in Colombia (2016)|SPECIAL MISSIONS|PEACE AGREEMENTS|VERIFICATION|COLOMBIA|RURAL DEVELOPMENT|ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: ALBANIA
vote: yes
country: BRAZIL
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: ECUADOR
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: GABON
vote: yes
country: GHANA
vote: yes
country: JAPAN
vote: yes
country: MALTA
vote: yes
country: MOZAMBIQUE
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: SWITZERLAND
vote: yes
country: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                   S/RES/2673 (2023)
               Security Council                                                 Distr.: General
                                                                                11 January 2023




               Resolution 2673 (2023)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 9240th meeting, on
               11 January 2023

                    The Security Council,
                   Reaffirming its full commitment to the peace process in the Republic of
               Colombia,
                    Recalling all its resolutions and Presidential and press statements regarding the
               peace process in Colombia,
                    Recalling in particular its resolution 2655 (2022) which renewed the mandate of
               the UN Verification Mission in Colombia until 31 October 2023,
                    Taking note of the 17 October letter from the Foreign Minister of Colombia
               (S/2022/787) which requested the Council to consider tasking the Verification
               Mission to monitor the implementation of section 1 on comprehensive rural reform
               and section 6.2 on the Ethnic Chapter of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict
               and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace (the Final Agreement) as a shared request of
               the Government of Colombia and the former FARC-EP,
                    Having considered the recommendations and proposals of the Secretary-General
               regarding the additional tasks as set out in his letter of 9 December 2022 (S/2022/940),
                      1.   Decides that the Verification Mission shall monitor the implementation of
               section 1 and section 6.2 of the Final Agreement as set out in the Secretary -General’s
               letter (S/2022/940) in addition to the provisions of the Verification Mission’s existing
               mandate as set out in resolution 2655 (2022);
                    2.   Expresses its willingness to continue working with the Government of
               Colombia on the mandate of the Verification Mission on the basis of agreement
               between the parties.




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