(Bogotá, June 16, 2017). The second phase of the laying down of Individual weapons by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC -EP), that began last Tuesday in La Elvira, in the department of Cauca, concluded today Friday in the 26 Transitional Local Zones for Normalization and Transitory Points.

At the end of this second phase the arms laydown process, the UN Mission has in its custody 60% of the approximately 7,000 individual weapons registered, monitored and verified since the last March 1 of this year.

Moreover, to this date it has been reported the arrival of 1,613 FARC-EP militiamen to the 26 Transitional Local Zones for Normalization and Transitory Points. In addition, the FARC-EP members have received the certificates of the laying down of arms that permits their transit into civilian life.

The UN Mission in Colombia continue with the operations of extraction of the armament and unstable material from the coves.

The UN Mission encourages the parties to continue their commitment to comply with the 29 May road map.