Recently, Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva led the 'Meeting for the truth for non-repetition', which was attended by representatives of the accredited diplomatic corps in Colombia and members of civil society organizations, and during which the former paramilitary chief, Carlos Mario Jiménez, alias 'Macaco', revealed several situations that he wants to detail before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) about his actions as commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (SFC) and the implications they had for the country.
Report informs, citing the Colombian Embassy to Azerbaijan that Minister Leyva during his speech highlighted the role of the Foreign Ministry in the search for the truth of the conflict in all corners of Colombia by pointing out that "non-repetition has no institution, it is a State policy, and must be tied to the truth ”, and assured that “The Colombian state has the duty to ensure by reasonable means within its reach the truth, justice, reparation and measures of non-repetition with respect to serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations of human rights”.
Also, he mentioned that “The Minister of Foreign Affairs is responsible for appearing every three months before the Security Council so that it can be established there whether the implementation is taking place.
For his part, the former leader of the Central Bolívar Bloc of the (SFC apologized to the victims "for the damage caused to society, to the communities where the extinct Central Bolívar Bloc operated," and to the Colombian Foreign Minister for, together with ' Salvatore Mancuso', make the decision to “declare it as a military objective of the organization” together with Iván Cepeda Castro and the current president of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego. “These military actions were unsuccessful, and I will detail them in my unique version in due course,” he assured.
He also asked Minister Leyva to intercede before the SJP before the arrival of the former SFC commanders in Colombia so that they can appear and clarify all the events that occurred during their actions. Similarly, he announced that he will help, along with 'Salvatore Mancuso' to identify the remains of the victims found on the border with Venezuela and Ecuador.
The act was promoted by the Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Non-Repetition Matters, headed by Helena Urán Bidegain, who assured that in Colombia "historical memory had never been dealt with, much less had it been conceived that the Foreign Ministry involved in proposing places of conscience for peace" and that, together with the truth processes, has become one of the pillars of the non-repetition agenda, understanding the truth "from the ethical and moral duty that we have as a society against country, and that will lead us to be free.
The meeting was attended by representatives of Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador, Cuba, Qatar, Nicaragua, Honduras, Argentina, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic in Colombia, as well as representatives of the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, local authorities, community associations and Colombian State officials.
This meeting is the second of this type that the Foreign Ministry holds within the framework of its non-repetition agenda. The first took place in the township of Juan Frío, Norte de Santander, during which the extrajudicial statement of former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso was heard and after which a Binational Technical Committee was established to search for missing persons on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.