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UN Mission in Colombia

Location:
Colombia
Headquarters:
Bogotá
Duration: September 2016 - September 2017

On 26 September 2017, the United Nations Mission in Colombia, in accordance with the Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, completed its Security Council mandate. The mission finalized activities related to the laying down of weapons from the FARC-EP, including the deactivation of the armament collected in the Transitional Local Zones for Normalization and Transitory Points, the ones extracted during the arms caches operations and the destruction of unstable material.

 

The United Nations continues to provide support to the peace process through the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, established by Security Council resolution 2377 (2017).

 

 

Leadership

Special Representative: Jean Arnault