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The Legal Status of the Colombian Peace Agreement

Part of: Colombian Peace Talks and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Laura Betancur Restrepo
Laura Betancur Restrepo*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia)
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One of the many roles played by international law in the Colombian Peace Accord is that of guarantor—that is, creating assurances that the parties will comply with their commitments. To this end, negotiators declared that the Final Peace Accord would constitute a Special Agreement (SA) in “terms of Article 3 common to all Geneva Conventions of 1949,” which “will be introduced [in the Colombian legal system] as part of the constitutional block” and deposited “before the Swiss Federal Council.” Furthermore, they stated, “a presidential declaration will be made taking the form of a unilateral declaration of the Colombian State before the Secretary-General of the United Nations,” and its incorporation in a Resolution of the Security Council will be requested.

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Symposium on the Colombian Peace Talks and International Law
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 188 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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