Civil Society Strategy Letter to Secretary Blinken on the Ethnic Chapter
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 24, 2023
Antony BlinkenSecretary of StateU.S. GovernmentWashington, DC
March 22, 2023
We were very pleased that the Biden Administration publicly announced that the United States is an international accompanier to the Ethnic Chapter of Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement. The signing ceremony that took place with you and Vice President Francia Marquez in October 2022 was symbolically important because it raised the profile of Afro-Colombian and indigenous issues globally and ratified the vital support that the U.S. government had already been giving to ethnic groups in Colombia.
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