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FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF COLOMBIA'S FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT Bogotá, 24 November 2021 Dear friend President Iván Duque, Dear protagonists of the peace process, Protagonists of the Peace Agreement and protagonists of its implementation. Together in building a future of peace for Colombia, Friends and All…

Bogotá, 23 November 2021. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, concluded his visit to the department of Antioquia this Tuesday, after a busy day in the company of the President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, with whom he visited the former Territorial Area for Training and Reintegration (TATR)…

Bogotá, 22 November 2021. United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Bogotá on Monday to begin his two-day visit to the country. Upon arrival, he was welcomed by Colombia’s Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marta Lucía Ramírez, his Special Representative in Colombia…

New York, 19 November 2021. The Secretary-General will visit Colombia from 23-24 November in celebration of the Fifth Anniversary of the signing of the landmark 2016 Final Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the former FARC-EP. The Secretary-General will meet with President Iván…

Dakar, 9 November 2021 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat ANNADIF, expresses his solidarity and offers his sincere condolences to the families of the victims, the Government and the people of…

TRIPOLI - The 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) concluded on 1 November a three-day meeting in Cairo, where they agreed with representatives of Chad, Niger, and Sudan on establishing an effective communication and coordination mechanism to support the implementation of the JMC Action Plan for the…

TRIPOLI, 30 October 2021 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is closely following ongoing efforts to finalize the legal framework for Libya’s national elections under consideration by the House of Representatives (HoR). On the eve of the upcoming session of the HoR, UNSMIL calls…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 24 October 2021 The UN Humanitarian agencies operating in Haiti are extremely concerned over the deepening crisis resulting from roadblocks which are preventing the delivery of fuel supplies, posing obstacles to the provision of essential services and preventing access by…

TRIPOLI, 24 October 2021 - The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Ján Kubiš, hailed the achievements secured by the (5+5) Joint Military Commission (JMC) since the signing of the comprehensive ceasefire agreement in Geneva a year ago.…

The Secretary-General welcomes the agreement reached in Geneva, on 8 October, by the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission (JMC) on a comprehensive Action Plan for the gradual, balanced, and sequenced process of the withdrawal of mercenaries, foreign fighters, and foreign forces from Libyan territory…