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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2261

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2017

Christine Bell*
Affiliation:
Christine Bell, is Professor of Constitutional Law, and Assistant Principal (Global Justice) and Co-Director of the Global Justice Academy University of Edinburgh. She is also Programme Director of the Political Settlement Research Programme (www.politicalsettlements.org).

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Copyright © 2017 by The American Society of International Law 

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ENDNOTES

1 Acuerdo Final para la Terminacíon del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera (Aug. 24, 2016), at https://www.mesadeconversaciones.com.co/documentos/documento-final (in Spanish).

2 Acuerdo Final para la Terminacíon del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera (Nov. 24, 2016), at https://www.mesadeconversaciones.com.co/sites/default/files/24-1480106030.11-1480106030.2016nuevoacuerdofinal-1480106030.pdf (in Spanish). On ratification see Colombia's Government Formally Ratifies Revised FARC Peace Deal, The Guardian, Dec. 1, 2016, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/01/colombias-government-formally-ratifies-revised-farc-peace-deal.

3 Acuerdo General para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera (Aug. 26, 2012), at https://www.mesadeconversaciones.com.co/sites/default/files/AcuerdoGeneralTerminacionConflicto.pdf (in Spanish).

4 Acuerdo Final para la Terminacíon del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera, supra note 1.

5 See UN Mission in Columbia, Timeline, at http://colombia.unmissions.org/en/timeline-0 (visited Feb. 14, 2017).

7 See Letter Dated Jan. 19, 2016, from the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations addressed to The Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, U.N. Doc. S/2016/53 (Jan. 22, 2016), at http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2016/53. Interestingly, although the relevant document sent to the United Nations with the request mentions the request being made in the form of “identical letters” as per the commitments agreed in Joint Communiqué #65, in fact only the letter from President Juan Manual Santos Calderon is included.

8 See Christine Bell, Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status, 100 AJIL 373 (2006).

9 See Thomas M. Franck, The Secretary-General's Role in Conflict Resolution: Past, Present and Pure Conjecture, 6 Eur. J. Int'l L. 360 (1995).

10 Bell, supra note 8; see also Christine Bell, On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria (2008).

11 Colombian Referendum: Voters Reject FARC Peace Deal, BBC News (Oct. 3, 2016), at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37537252.

12 Security Council Authorizes UN Mission to Verify Ceasefire in Colombia, UN Mission in Colombia (Oct. 31, 2016), at http://colombia.unmissions.org/en/security-council-authorizes-un-mission-verify-ceasefire-colombia.

13 Acuerdo Final para la Terminacíon del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera, supra note 2.