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UN’s Latest Move May End Up Legitimizing Notorious Narco-Terror Group

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JP Carroll National Security & Foreign Affairs Reporter
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The Colombian Government and Marxist drug trafficking rebels asked the United Nations to serve as mediators for a year-long ceasefire Tuesday. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “welcomed the joint request,” according to a U.N. News Center press release.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, have waged war on the Colombian government for 51 years in what is the longest running armed conflict on the Western Hemisphere. FARC rebels are known to use drug trafficking to finance their fight against the democratically-elected Colombian government.

The British delegation to the United Nations has come up with a draft resolution Jan. 20, which is aimed at UN involvement in Colombia if the government and the rebels reach a peace deal, according to Reuters. This draft resolution could potentially go up for a vote at some point in the next week, according to the Associated Press.

A U.N. delegation if sent to Colombia would be made up solely of unarmed UN observers from Latin American countries. The purpose of the proposed resolution is to let the UN Department of Political Affairs start working out how the international organization would serve as a mediator according to the Associated Press.

FARC rebels and the Colombian government have been negotiating with one another since November 2012 in Havana, Cuba. The deadline for the two sides to have reached a peace deal is March of this year.

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