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national and international norms in the matter of Human Rights and
Humanitarian International Law;
c)
that a number of measures has been adopted as to programs of
protection and cooperation to protect different members of the population, for
which they aim at guaranteeing their right to integrity, life, to exercise their
profession and civic activity within the parameters ordered by the Constitution
and the Law;
d)
a new Military Criminal Code was created within the national
legislation, Law No. 522; Law No. 554 on discharging minors from service in
the military forces of Colombia, and thus, to comply with the Convention on
Children’s Rights; Law No. 589 on forced disappearance, genocide and
moving; the new Criminal Code and the passing of the Ottawa Convention on
anti-personal mines;
e)
multiple specific actions have been promoted through the Vicepresidency of the Republic for the Community of San José de Apartadó, such
as: installation of light reflectors in the Community of San José and in La
Unión, supply of communication radios and improvement of roads, which
have been all promoted with the Municipality, the City Hall and the Red of
Solidaridad Social. This type of actions confirms the commitment by the
State with the Community of San José de Apartadó. Colombia has full
capacity to contribute and attain said measures directly and to move on in
this dialogue with the Community;
f)
the Ministry of the Interior has followed up the Community of Paz
since it was created. It has coordinated actions with local authorities,
especially with the City Hall. It has provided humanitarian assistance to those
who have moved, in coordination to the municipality and the governorship,
and also technical assistance for the population.
The position of the
Community of Paz has been respected and they have worked with the public
force to make the security provided to this Community be perimetric, without
prejudice of the former entering the community in case it would be
necessary. Both the Ministry of the Interior and the Office of Human
Resources consider that the security of the Community of San José de
Apartadó must be agreed on. In this sense, petitions have been responded
through the Red de Solidaridad Social. Likewise, the Ministry has disposed a
sum of thirthy five million pesos in order to present the Community a project
to be evaluated and studied to create workshops of distension between the
authorities and the Community for restoring the confidence between the
Community and the authorities. The policy of finishing with any commitment
or bond that may exist between the members of the public force and the
autodefensas may be added to the above; the idea of creating these
workshops of training as an alternative solution of conflicts and reviewing the
work done in the Community in the matter of justice, respecting self-control
mechanisms. It is also sought to design an early alarm system that must be
agreed upon by the Community and the public force to be effective.
g)
a committee formed by representatives of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic, the Office the General Prosecutor and the Office of
the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights, visited the
local authorities of San José de Apartadó with the purpose of promoting