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THE UN security council has backed a ceasefire between Colombia’s government and National Liberation Army (ELN) guerillas.
The body voted unanimously on Thursday to authorise the UN mission in Colombia to monitor and verify the temporary truce brokered by neighbouring Ecuador at talks in Quito last month.
The resolution approved recommendations by secretary-general Antonio Guterres to add up to 70 additional international observers to monitor the temporary ceasefire period, which will end on January 9 2018.
The security council welcomed the September 4 announcement of the ceasefire and the request by both parties to the United Nations to co-ordinate and take part in monitoring and verifying the halt to hostilities.
"For the first time in over half a century, the guns between these two once warring sides have fallen silent, which creates yet another historic opportunity for the people of Colombia," British ambassador Matthew Rycroft said after the vote.
