Friday, April 21, 2017

Colombia to Denounce Venezuela Militarization before UN


Colombia’s president on Wednesday accused his Venezuelan counterpart of further militarizing the civilian population and said he had asked his foreign minister to convey those concerns to the United Nations. “I asked the foreign minister to urge the UN secretary-general to pay attention to the worrying militarization of Venezuelan society,” Juan Manuel Santos wrote on Twitter. Maria Angela Holguin traveled Tuesday to New York and is scheduled to meet Wednesday with top UN officials, including Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to review the progress made by a UN mission to Colombia tasked with monitoring and verifying the peace accord and cessation of hostilities between leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas and government forces. More…

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