UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia for another year, until Oct. 31, 2027.
Resolution 2833 decides that the mission's mandate will be focused on its primary function only: the reincorporation of former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and personal and collective security guarantees.
The Colombian government and the FARC struck a peace deal in August 2016 after four years of negotiations in Havana, Cuba. The UN Security Council in July 2017 approved the establishment of the Verification Mission to verify the political, economic and social reintegration of former FARC combatants as well as security guarantees.
The mandate of the mission was later expanded to include monitoring the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement's comprehensive rural reform and ethnic chapters. Friday's resolution retained only the primary tasks of the mission. ■
