In brief
The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia until Oct. 31, 2027, with a renewed focus on the reintegration of former FARC combatants and the provision of personal and collective security guarantees. The move returns the mission to its original role after an earlier expansion that included monitoring rural reforms. The decision follows the 2016 peace deal between Colombia and FARC and the mission’s 2017 establishment.
Security Council approved a resolution on Friday to extend the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia for another year, until Oct. 31, 2027. The resolution focuses solely on the reintegration of former FARC combatants and on ensuring personal and collective security guarantees.
The vote was adopted under Resolution 2833, which restores the mission’s original purpose after it had broadened its scope in the past to monitor the implementation of rural reforms and ethnic chapters of the 2016 peace agreement.
The UN Verification Mission was first established in July 2017 to verify the political, economic and social reintegration of former FARC combatants, following the peace negotiations that concluded in August 2016 in Havana, Cuba.
Under the new resolution, the mission will concentrate on the primary tasks of confirming the reintegration process and providing security guarantees, without continuing its expanded monitoring duties.
Sources do not report any dissent or alternative positions; the decision is presented as a unanimous extension by the Security Council.
