Security Council resolution 2655 (2022) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia until 31 Oct. 2023]
Symbol: S/RES/2655 (2022)
Date: 2022-10-27
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/77 [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
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: ALBANIA
vote: yes
country: BRAZIL
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: GABON
vote: yes
country: GHANA
vote: yes
country: INDIA
vote: yes
country: IRELAND
vote: yes
country: KENYA
vote: yes
country: MEXICO
vote: yes
country: NORWAY
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                    S/RES/2655 (2022)
               Security Council                                                  Distr.: General
                                                                                 27 October 2022




               Resolution 2655 (2022)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 9169th meeting, on
               27 October 2022

                    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,
                     Welcoming the progress made towards peace across Colombia since the adoption
               of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting
               Peace (the Final Agreement), urging the parties, with the support of relevant state
               institutions and security forces, as well as civil society, to work together to contin ue
               building upon this progress and address ongoing challenges, in particular the
               continued violence in conflict-affected areas, through comprehensive implementation
               of the Final Agreement, including rural reform, inclusive political participation, its
               ethnic and gender provisions, and countering illicit drugs including through crop
               substitution programmes, and recalling the disproportionate impact of the conflict on
               women and its effects on persons belonging to indigenous and Afro-Colombian
               communities,
                    Taking note of the engagement of the Peacebuilding Commission with the
               Government of Colombia and looking forward to further cooperation, including with
               relevant UN agencies, in order to ensure an integrated and coherent approach to the
               comprehensive implementation of the Final Agreement,
                     Recalling in particular its resolution 2366 (2017) which established the United
               Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (the Verification Mission) to verify
               implementation by the Government of Colombia and Revolutionary Armed Forces of
               Colombia (FARC-EP) of sections 3.2 and 3.4 of the Final Agreement as called for in
               section 6.3.3 of the Final Agreement, and recalling the positive role played by the
               Verification Mission in that regard,
                     Recalling also its resolution 2574 (2021) which expanded the mandate of the
               Verification Mission to include the additional task of verifying compliance with and
               implementation of the sentences to be issued by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
               (SJP), and welcoming the ongoing preparations being made by the Verification
               Mission, working with the SJP, in this regard,




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                     Noting that, under the terms of the Final Agreement, the sentences of the SJP
               will have the overall aim of realising the rights of victims and consolidating peace,
               and will need to have the greatest restorative and reparative function in relation to the
               harm caused,
                     Recognising the contribution the Verification Mission could make to building
               confidence in the Comprehensive System for Truth, Justice, Reparation and
               Non-Repetition established under the Final Agreement, which is integral to the success
               of the peace process and the fulfilment of the rights of the victims of the conflict,
                     Acknowledging the letter of 17 October from the Foreign Minister of Colombia
               (S/2022/787) requesting an extension of the mandate of the Verification Mission and
               for the Council to consider tasking the Mission to verify the implementation of section
               1 on comprehensive rural reform and section 6.2 on the Ethnic Chapter of the Final
               Agreement as a shared request of the Government of Colombia and the party of the
               former FARC-EP,
                    1.    Decides to extend the mandate of the Verification Mission until 31 October
               2023;
                    2.    Requests the Secretary-General to provide detailed recommendations to
               the Council on how the additional tasks on the verification of section 1 and section
               6.2 of the Final Agreement, as requested in the 17 October letter from the Foreign
               Minister of Colombia, would be carried out and to confirm any implications for the
               configuration of the Mission within 45 days of the adoption of this resolution and
               expresses its intent to consider swiftly these recommendations;
                    3.    Expresses its willingness to work with the Government of Colombia on
               the further extension of the mandate of the Verification Mission on the basis of
               agreement between the parties.




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