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UN:
GUATEMALA HAILS 'UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION' WITH UN ON ARMED GROUPS
PROBE: 28/9/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
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- 28 September 2007 –
The independent body being set up to
investigate the presence and activities of illegal armed groups in Guatemala
represents a unique joint effort between the United Nations and a Member State,
the country’s President told the General Assembly yesterday.
Oscar
Berger Perdomo told the Assembly’s annual high-level debate that the
International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) will improve the
Central American nation’s capacity to investigate and prosecute criminal
activity.
“It is
an unprecedented collaboration between a Member State and the United Nations in
order to combat impunity and particularly transnational crime; an endeavour that
will surely leave very tangible benefits as much to my country as important
learning lessons to the United Nations,” he said.
CICIG
was established under an agreement between the UN and the Guatemalan Government
that came into effect on 4 September. An independent, non-UN body, the
Commission will be able to conduct its own investigations and also help local
institutions, particularly the Office of the Public Prosecutor.
One of
CICIG’s tasks is to recommend public policies and any legal or institutional
measures for eradicating the illegal armed groups and preventing their
re-emergence. The costs are expected to be borne by voluntary contributions from
the international community.
The
President said the UN occupies a special place in his country’s foreign
policy, especially for the work of MINUGUA, the UN Verification Mission in
Guatemala, which operated after the end of the country’s long-running civil
war in the mid-1990s.
More
than three decades of conflict in Guatemala ended with the signing of peace
accords in December 1996, but CICIG is being set up amid mounting concern in
recent years that illegal security groups and clandestine security organizations
continue to operate with impunity, conducting criminal activities and violating
human rights.
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