Agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia

The Agreement, concluded between the United Nations and Colombia on 8 February 2017, regulates the status of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia.

The Mission, its property, funds and assets and its members shall enjoy the privileges and immunities, exemptions and facilities specified in the present Agreement, as well as those provided for in the Convention. The Mission, as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations, enjoys the status, rights, privileges and immunities, exemptions and facilities of the United Nations pursunt to and in accordance with the Convention on Privileges and immunities of the United Nations.

The Special Representative, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary- General, the Chief of Staff, the chief international observer and members of the Mission of equivalent ranks as notified by the Special Representative shall have the status specified in Sections 19 and 27 of the Convention and shall be accorded the privileges and immunities, exemptions and facilities there provided. Officials of the United Nations assigned to serve with the Mission remain offi- cials of the United Nations entitled, subject to paragraph 27, to the privileges and immuni- ties, exemptions and facilities set out in Articles V and VII of the Convention.

The Secretary General of the United Nations shall have the right and the duty to waive the immunity of any member of the Mission in any case where, in his or her opinion, the immunity would impede the course of justice and can be waived without prejudice to the interests of the United Nations.