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Colombia: Quarterly Meeting

Tomorrow afternoon (15 October), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on Colombia. Special Representative and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu will brief on recent developments and the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report on the mission, which covers the period from 27 June to 26 September. The Council will also hear a briefing from a civil society representative. Colombia will participate in the meeting under rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, represented by its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia. Closed consultations are scheduled to follow the open briefing.

Switzerland, the Council’s president in October and one of the signatories to the Shared Commitments on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), has chosen to have a WPS focus for tomorrow’s meeting. Council members that have signed on to the Shared Commitments on WPS—Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the UK, and the US—are scheduled to read a joint statement ahead of the meeting.

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