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Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombian Foreign Minister, is in New York advancing a diplomatic agenda that has included his participation in the election of the non-permanent members of the Security Council and a brief meeting with the ministers of Panama and Denmark, countries that, together with Greece, Pakistan and Somalia, will enter the Council for the period 2025-2026.
The senior official also met with the current 15 members of the Security Council, to whom he explained the challenges facing the country "for the full implementation of the final peace agreement of 2016 and the recent developments of the national debate around it," he said. The Foreign Minister assured that his presentation was well received by the members of the council, who reiterated their firm and unanimous support for Colombia's peace efforts.
"To the members, I also announced the participation of President Gustavo Petro in the next quarterly session on July 11 of this year, when he will present a strategic report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement during the period 2016 – 2024. There is great expectation from the Security Council regarding President Petro's visit and the socialization of said report," he said.
The Minister was emphatic in assuring that there was no talk of a constituent assembly at the meeting: "as President Gustavo Petro has recently expressed, the Security Council is not going to be asked – nor has it been requested – to endorse a Colombian constituent assembly. We want to focus attention on the real purpose of this discussion: to overcome the obstacles that prevent the proper implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement."
Murillo said that as a society we must make all the efforts that are necessary to advance in the construction of peace and reconciliation. And he repeated that President Gustavo Petro has already reiterated on several occasions that a Constituent Assembly will not be convened, much less to do so to seek eventual reelection.
"The country today demands unity of all social and power instances, including the media, we have to unite in the common purpose of fulfilling our people and the people, society and the world in making definitive peace. What we are looking for, and it was very clear today here in New York, in the conversation with the members of the Security Council, is for the country to understand the need to undertake the transformations and reforms necessary to address the structural causes of violence and achieve, once and for all, an end to the armed conflict in Colombia." Pointed out.
