Samper explained here that this process would have three phases: that of the "ceasefire", the disarmament and the demobilization and reintegration of the combatants. This is a process that will be developed by technical-military consultants called by the UNASUR South American Defense Council.
The request to elaborate this process was made by the pro tempore president of the Union, chaired by Uruguay, who appointed the former Uruguayan minister José Bayardi, as delegate.
The long experience of the United Nations in the construction of peace in the Americas is a guarantee that this process, perhaps one of the most important in recent years, can come to fruition. "There is no peacekeeping operation to use as a model, it is a learning process that every country must live differently," Samper concluded.
In this context, the UNASUR Secretary General, in New York, proposed the formation of a school of peace mediators to facilitate the resolution of armed conflicts and to join efforts to strengthen peace.
Before the meeting with Ban Ki-moon, Samper held several hearings with UNASUR officials. Among them Zarihoun Taye-Brook, Assistant to the Secretary General for Political Affairs, with whom he discussed important regional issues such as peace in Colombia, democracy in Venezuela, relations between Venezuela and Guyana, and widespread conflict between Falkland Islands.
During his stay in New York, the aforementioned met with Helen Clark, director of the United Nations Development Program, with Susana Malcorra, Chief of Staff of the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with Hervé Ladsous, undersecretary general and Head of Operations Department of UN peacekeeping, Lenni Montiel, assistant to the Secretary General for Economic Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and with Yannick Glemarec, with whom he discussed a possible pilot project in UNASUR that would contextualize the issue of "WOMEN EMPOWERMENT".
Maria Grazia Labellarte
Source / photo: UNASUR
(read also Colombia and the peace process in the country of 5 February 2015)
