Third report of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala

By United Nations

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 10, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066317119

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United Nations

Third report of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066317119

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Verification of compliance with the commitments assumed in the Peace Agreements

A. Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights

B. Agreement on Resettlement of the Population Groups Uprooted by the Armed Conflict

C. Agreement on the Establishment of the Commission to Clarify Past Human Rights Violations and Acts of Violence that have Caused the Guatemalan Population to Suffer

D. Agreement on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples

E. Agreement on Social and Economic Aspects and the Agrarian Situation

F. Agreement on the Strengthening of Civilian Power and the Role of the Armed Forces in a Democratic Society

G. Agreement on Constitutional Reforms and the Electoral Regime

H. Agreement on the Basis for the Legal Integration of the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca

III. Observations

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Fifty-third session

Agenda item 44

The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of

a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace,

freedom, democracy and development

United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala

Report of the Secretary-General

1. This is the third report on the verification of compliance with the agreements signed by the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), submitted pursuant to the mandate given to the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) by the General Assembly in resolution 51/198 B, of 27 March 1997. The General Assembly extended this mandate by its resolution 51/198 C of 31 July 1997. Subsequently, by its resolution 52/175 of 18 December 1997, the Assembly authorized the extension of the Mission’s mandate until 31 December 1998 and requested me, as it had in its earlier resolutions, to keep it fully informed of the implementation of the resolution.

I. Introduction

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2. The implementation of the commitments entered into by the Government and URNG is governed by the Agreement on the Implementation, Compliance and Verification Timetable for the Peace Agreements (A/51/796-S/1997/114, annex I), which divides the period 1997 to 2000 into three phases. This report covers the period from January to July 1998, that is to say, the first seven months of the third phase, which covers the period from 1998 to 2000. As was indicated in the previous report (A/52/757), the implementation of important commitments under the second phase had to be postponed; they include the commitments concerning compensation for victims of human rights violations, reform and strengthening of the system of urban and rural development councils, establishment of an agrarian and environmental jurisdiction, reform of intelligence bodies, establishment of a career civil service and redeployment of the armed forces.

3. The Commission to Follow up the Implementation of the Peace Agreements, which is the body authorized to schedule and reschedule the commitments, is preparing a revised schedule for the remainder of 1998 and for 1999 in consultation with the State institutions and the organizations directly involved in the implementation of the Peace Agreements. This exercise includes rescheduling the commitments contained in the Timetable Agreement, scheduling those which were not set forth in that Agreement and scheduling implementation of the recommendations emanating from the Commission for the Official Recognition of Indigenous Languages, the Joint Commission on Educational Reform and the Commission on the Strengthening of the Justice System. This effort is consistent with the implementation strategy for the Agreements, which is guided, inter alia, by the need to stagger implementation of the fundamental components of the Agreements, thereby seeking to avoid dissipating governmental and non-governmental implementation efforts and "to set timetables for those actions that depend on the consensus-building mechanisms provided for in the Agreements, taking into account their outcome (see A/51/796-S/1997/114, para. 3). In this context, attention is drawn to the effort made by