UN biodiversity summit in Colombia 'will fail,' guerrilla group threatens
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Bogot : Colombian guerrillas fighting the government and rival armed groups threatened Tuesday that a major UN biodiversity summit to be held in the c...
Bogotá: Colombian guerrillas fighting the government and rival armed groups threatened Tuesday that a major UN biodiversity summit to be held in the city of Cali later this year "will fail."
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the Convention on Biological Diversity "will fail even if they militarize the city with gringos," the EMC armed group wrote in a message on X addressed to President Gustavo Petro.
The EMC, or Central General Staff, is a group of dissidents that rejected the peace deal signed in 2016 by the FARC guerrilla group, which subsequently disarmed.
COP16 host Cali, associated with a particularly violent chapter of Colombia's deadly drug conflict, has been facing a new wave of brutality as it prepares to host the meeting.
Security is set to be handled by the Colombian government and UN.