Los Estados Parte de la Convención sobre la Prohibición de Minas Antipersonal otorgaron a Colombia una extensión de diez años para completar la identificación y limpieza de todas las áreas minadas en el territorio nacional
El plazo establecido inicialmente en el artículo 5 de la Convención sobre la Prohibición de Minas Antipersonal vencía en marzo del 2011.
Colombia había presentado la solicitud de la prórroga el pasado 31 de marzo, bajo el argumento de que el uso continuo de estas armas por parte de los grupos armados ilegales dificulta notablemente las labores del Estado colombiano para completar sus obligaciones.
En 2010, Colombia finalizó las labores de limpieza de minas en las 35 bases militares que fueron protegidas con dichos artefactos, antes de la suscripción de la Convención, lo cual constituye un avance destacado en el cumplimiento de las obligaciones previstas en ese instrumento internacional.
Sin embargo, el hecho de que los grupos armados ilegales continúen recurriendo al uso de estos artefactos, sin ningún tipo de patrón o doctrina militar, dificulta la identificación de las zonas sospechosas y la destrucción de las minas sembradas.
La Embajadora de Colombia ante las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra (Suiza), Alicia Arango Olmos, Jefe de la Delegación nacional en la Décima Reunión de Estados Parte, manifestó su satisfacción por esta respuesta positiva.
“Colombia ha dado muestras de un compromiso permanente con el cumplimiento de la Convención, el cual se ha materializado en la destinación de importantes recursos financieros, técnicos y humanos para atender una problemática compleja y creciente”, señaló la alta funcionaria.
Agregó que en el periodo de vigencia de la extensión, Colombia continuará avanzando “en todas las acciones a su alcance para garantizar un territorio libre de minas antipersonal, que es el compromiso que adquirimos con el pueblo colombiano y con la comunidad internacional”.
Colombia deberá presentar una actualización de la implementación de acciones para atender los compromisos de la solicitud una vez al año, y una actualización del plan de acción previsto en el año 2013.
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Dear Maria Jose,
Here is the brief statement I wrote about land mines. I hope it is useful to you.
Take very good care of yourself and those you love.
John K
PS: As I write this the Colombian singer Juanes is on my TV at the New York Thanksgiving Day parade.
As a science fiction writer, I have spent much time in my life thinking about the ingenious creations of the human race. Human beings, these curious apes, like to tinker with things. We really are quite extraordinary creatures, miraculous in our ability to make new things, things that would never be seen in a state of nature.
This has led to marvelous inventions that have made our lives better. In the room where I am sitting as I type this are a hundred objects created through the intense, applied mechanical ingenuity of thousands of people. The electric lights. The computer on which I write these words. The iPod that contains thousands of hours of music. The books that I have read and studied for most of my life. The cell phone beside my keyboard.
One of the other ingenious things men have created is the land mine. One can recognize in the creation of these weapons the same creativity and cleverness that has built so much of our modern world. This is the dark side of that cleverness, the shadow of our monkey intelligence put in service of our apelike violence.
Land mines kill and maim many innocent people. Their indiscriminate use is a threat to people decades after the conflict that caused their dispersal is forgotten. Through a terrible irony children, because they can be attracted to these small, interesting objects, are particularly vulnerable. I wish they had never been invented.
The legacy of war is pain and death, and any state that uses such weapons has a moral obligation to clear them after the conflict is over. Better still, land mines should be banned, along with all the other ingenious methods that human beings, we clever, homicidal apes, have created to destroy each other.
John Kessel
Raleigh, NC, USA
Para saber quién es John Kessel: http://encuentrofractal.com/invitados/john/
Dear Maria Jose,
Here is the brief statement I wrote about land mines. I hope it is useful to you.
Take very good care of yourself and those you love.
John K
PS: As I write this the Colombian singer Juanes is on my TV at the New York Thanksgiving Day parade.
As a science fiction writer, I have spent much time in my life thinking about the ingenious creations of the human race. Human beings, these curious apes, like to tinker with things. We really are quite extraordinary creatures, miraculous in our ability to make new things, things that would never be seen in a state of nature.
This has led to marvelous inventions that have made our lives better. In the room where I am sitting as I type this are a hundred objects created through the intense, applied mechanical ingenuity of thousands of people. The electric lights. The computer on which I write these words. The iPod that contains thousands of hours of music. The books that I have read and studied for most of my life. The cell phone beside my keyboard.
One of the other ingenious things men have created is the land mine. One can recognize in the creation of these weapons the same creativity and cleverness that has built so much of our modern world. This is the dark side of that cleverness, the shadow of our monkey intelligence put in service of our apelike violence.
Land mines kill and maim many innocent people. Their indiscriminate use is a threat to people decades after the conflict that caused their dispersal is forgotten. Through a terrible irony children, because they can be attracted to these small, interesting objects, are particularly vulnerable. I wish they had never been invented.
The legacy of war is pain and death, and any state that uses such weapons has a moral obligation to clear them after the conflict is over. Better still, land mines should be banned, along with all the other ingenious methods that human beings, we clever, homicidal apes, have created to destroy each other.
John Kessel
Raleigh, NC, USA
Para saber quién es John Kessel: http://encuentrofractal.com/invitados/john/
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