The Legal Status of the Colombian Peace Agreement

Abstract

One of the many roles played by international law in the Colombian Peace Accord is that of guarantor-that is, creating assurances that the parties will comply with their commitments. To this end, negotiators declared that the Final Peace Accord would constitute a Special Agreement (SA) in terms of Article 3 common to all Geneva Conventions of 1949, which will be introduced [in the Colombian legal system] as part of the constitutional block and deposited before the Swiss Federal Council. Furthermore, they stated, a presidential declaration will be made taking the form of a unilateral declaration of the Colombian State before the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and its incorporation in a Resolution of the Security Council will be requested.