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UN chief to witness signing of peace accord between Colombia, FARC rebels

Xinhua, June 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is going to visit the Cuban capital of Havana to witness the signing of a bilateral ceasefire between the government of Colombia and the country's largest rebel group FARC, said a UN spokesperson here on Wednesday.

After the signing ceremony on Thursday, the United Nations is going to deploy a political mission to monitor the peace process in Colombia, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq told a daily briefing.

The President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft, and the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Francois Delattre of France, will also participate in the signing ceremony, said Haq.

FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was established in May 1964 as a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization. The Colombian government has held several rounds of peace talks with the FARC since November 2012.

This year in January, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution to approve the establishment of a mission to monitor the ongoing peace process in Colombia which aims to end the 50-year conflict between the government and the FARC guerrillas.

According to the resolution, the mission will be a political mission of unarmed international observers, and will work along with the Colombian government and FARC as a trilateral mechanism to monitor disarmament of the guerrilla group and the ceasefire. Endit