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UNITED NATIONS Economic and Social Distr. ill Council GENERAL E/CN.4/1989/18/Add. 6 February 1989 Original: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-fifth session Agenda item 10 (c) # QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT QUESTION OF ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES Report of the Working Group-on Enforced-or Involuntary-Disappearances r w Addendum Report on the visit to Colombia by two members-of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (24 October- 2 November 1988) GE. 89- 10429 E/CN.4/1989/18/Add.1 page 2 I. INTRODUCTION 1. By a letter dated 25 March 1988, the Government of Colombia invited the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to visit the country in connection with reports on disappearances transmitted to it by the Group. At its twenty-fourth session in May 1988, the Working Group decided to accept that invitation and, at its twenty-fifth session, delegated Mr. Toine van Dongen and Mr. Diego Garcia-Sayan to carry out the visit on the Group's behalf. The visit to Colombia took place from 24 October to 2 November 1988. 2. During the visit, the two members of the mission were received by the President of the Republic, the Ministers of Defence, Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Justice, the President of the Council of State, the Attorney-General of the Nation, as well as the Attorneys-Delegate for the Defence of Human Rights, for the Armed Forces and for the National Police, the Vice-President and other judges of the Supreme Court, the Presidential Advisers for the Defence, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, for Social Development and for Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Normalization, the_Administratiye Security Department j(JDAS), the National Director of Criminal^Investigation, the Governors of Antioquia and Valle, as well as other high officials of the executive, including the armed forces and the judiciary, both in the capital and in the cities of Medellin and Cali.
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