La historia secreta del fin del ‘Consenso de Viena’

0:00 In the WU, Colonel Yes Alberto' s report, many listeners write to me and tell me that I must have a mistake in talking about today' s Colonel report, because I have said it is the secret story of the end of the Vienna consensus. I know PCs that consensus, because that is the first that the Colonel report has is that it is the end of that meeting that, like everything in the United Nations, is of no use, because the custom is to agree on everything is unanimously. Then why, why don' t you solve anything. It' s called the Vienna consensus.

0:42 Historically, until what the Colonel report is going to denounce, everything was unanimous, everything was a custom. In Vienna they agreed for everything or they agreed for everything, i e one, here was no use at all. I don' t know if this changes, but it is that the United Nations, yes, sooner or later, speaks, there will be, that will have to be fixed. Seven in the morning twenty minutes. This is LEU and this is Colonel Daniel' s report Welcome, good morning, Julio.

1:23 This is today' s Colonel report. This news has been going on since last week BSIL United Nations, in New York, in Geneva, in Paris and, of course, in Vienna. The diplomatic world has been a kind of earthquake, largely caused by Colombia. The funny thing is that in our country the news has been little commented, perhaps because it coincided with Holy Week. A very long tradition of unanimous decisions at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs suddenly ended a few days ago. The custom was so entrenched and accepted that it already had the name of the old consensus that the Austrian headquarters of the United Nations had never been voted on a decision was simply taken unanimously, without any disagreement, when all agreed. They claimed that many in the diplomatic world loved that. But everything has to be said has led to the delegates of the countries always moving within a convenient medianía that did not bother anyone, but where there were not great determinations. Since I am not a diplomat, I can say with all the letters, they were very traditional, visible and to some extent mediocre decisions, because in terms of reaching consensus, nothing ever

2:58 changed on account of this. For example, the anti- drug policy adopted by the member countries of the United Nations since one thousand nine hundred and seventy - one has never been examined in depth. Fifty- two years ago, when the then- uniter, Richard Nixon, declared drugs the number one public enemy. Little, then, can the cat say that all those years they have enriched weapons, chemical fumigators, radars, warships, they have militarized the police of the producing countries in the Third World, they have strengthened, they have grown the millionaire budgets of the Santyros agents, but the drug trafficking there has not disappeared. Autumn seems to grow with weddings. Daniel, let me have a second word. There' s drug trafficking. That' s where we' re going to change the channel, because you have a guest and we want you to listen very well. And in traffic there is what we were talking about a consensus, a United Nations office paid by the world where nothing happens, because they always agree on the whole consensus, the Vienna consensus.

4:15 And suddenly the consensus was over and the protagonist a Colombian. In seconds we' re returning to the Colonel report by a more direct line. Daniel and drug trafficking. There is, the drug trade. There are quantities of hectares or acres sown with illicit crops increasing or decreasing according to the supply and demand of narcos, but it does not end or move from one country to another July across borders without ending it lies whoever says it has been about to end. He' s only moved from what experts call the balloon effect.

5:06 If pressed on one side, the air inflates another part of the same group. Finally, the sixty- seventh session of the United Nations Com mission of Accidental Estopon, which had to warn the advance, was held in Vienna and bought in two thousand nineteen. The first discrepancy arose from the invitation to the United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, Volker terp an Austria, which succeeded former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in that position and whose head office is in Geneva Sui And there he leapt to see that the UN operates in separate silos that distrust each other. Those in Vienna don' t see much sympathy. Those in Geneva may have tried to make the visustra a Friday by the tap The insistence of several diplomatic delegations, among which was the result that the Human Rights Commissioner' s speech took place on Thursday before a suspicious audience, but attentive there, the Commissioner argued that the fight against drugs should contemplate the protection of human rights, something that seems obvious. It' s all one, because the two of you have always gone through separate lines. One lane goes to the anti- drug struggle in Vienna and, by lot, human rights in Geneva. The second had to do with a declaration that went to the first

6:39 four years of the ministerial commitment of two thousand nineteen and was eminently prohibitive, the usual more repression, hoping that the same formula always produced different results. And this is where the role of Colombia in alliance who believed it with the United States is always scored on two issues. First was included the expression harm reduction for the first time, challenging the routine and active opposition of two colossians, Russia and China. Colombia' s ambassador Laura Gil threatened to call for a vote without the expression mentioned nine times in the statement at the initiative of the United States was to exclude, which meant the end of the Vienna consensus.

7:30 Russia, feeling strong enough, ended up asking for a vote and guess. It voted and won the n with thirty- eight votes in favor, including Colombia, the United States, Britain and Switzerland, two votes against sins, China and Russia and six abstentions. The existence of such a vote alone killed the Vienna consensus. But that wasn' t all the seconds. What happened is that in the routine statement, Colombia introduced a paragraph that is a kind of Trojan horse, in which it talks about the need to advance the anti- drug struggle, with special attention to human rights and the need to adapt innovative measures. Given this say the failures of the narcotics IT applied so far. To talk about this subject and only about this subject, she accepted the invitation to be in the report today the protagonist of this diplomat, the Ambassador of Colombia Austria, Laura Gil, whom we greet now. Good morning, Madam Ambassador. Very good morning, Daniel, very good morning to the whole table, Mr Ambassador, what does the approval of this clarification mean for Colombia? You could repeat the question. Please, Daniel, did you want

9:05 to ask what the adoption of this declaration means to Colombia? Well, there were several of them. There is no document that is an official prohibitionist document where we put this paragraph, which was what mattered to us, because that paragraph, as you well say, is a troya horse that united, which together with the declaration of the sixty- two countries saying that the global drug regime failed. It allows Colombia, with the like countries, to convene the conversation that continues from now on, which is how we reform it and the harm reduction that finally enshrines the end of the Vienna consensus. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is an achievement and I think it is not yet dimensioned in Colombia, because what we did was change the path of global drug policy. That ' s simple. This is something we were looking for, that there were countries that had been looking for for 20 years. Ambassador for international diplomacy, what consequences the end of spirit brings The Vienna consensus was broken in the nations

10:35 of the nascent United Nations. I think it' s a change in the way we work in Vienna, literally in Geneva and New York, the headquarters of the United Nations vote and nobody thinks twice about Vienna. The bodies operating here do not vote. They vote. They were very occasionally and a resolution had never been voted on in the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The only thing to be voted on was that instruments were on which lists of prohibitions. That thing we broke up at the last session. It changes the way we work, it makes us lose the fear of breaking the Vienna consensus. What was going on? Consensus is an institution, literally an institution, and countries are very afraid to break it. A huge fear to do the first I kicked the board. In fact, I was told by the countries if Colombia does, but we do not want to be the first to do so. The reason why it operated on the basis of consensus is that, since the resolutions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs are not legally binding, or a consensus resolution has more political and quasi- illegal weight than one taken by a vote of say the countries it defends in consensus. It was clear to us this was

12:11 the time to do so. If we didn' t step in right now and we' re going to keep skating and consider in the Embassy with Chancellor Murillo, that we really had to step in and we did it and it worked. But I must say Daniel, we did it in a resolution that was a U S resolution and the situation was very simple. Colombia said if it doesn' t go with harm reduction. We took it to the vote and the United States had to choose. Well who leads to who. Let ' s say there was going to be a vote, because if not Russia had also threatened that it would go with harm reduction. They called. But since I knew there was going to be a vote, we had to say make sure that resolution happened, because the worst thing that could happen is that that resolution, which was very good, was not going to happen. So, let' s literally say, it was up to the embassy and our like- minded countries to get the votes to do it. I saw the votes. I organized an organization as if it were in the Colombian Congress,

13:41 more or less that no ambassador could get out of his chair or go to the bathroom until it was thrown out and well, that' s how we got the most theories, and only two countries against it. Yeah, I pick up, like any Atlantic gator, the Hungarian ambassador got away from the poor meeting. Well, the result. He didn' t say anything happy to the Russian ambassador. Allow me to read some of the things you said. He called the solution unacceptable. She objected that she would have been applauded. He said it was quotes, a terrible situation that can hardly be a cause for applause. He assured that Russia is a responsible country, committed to the spirit of Vienna and a drug- free society, and called the language of controversial liberator. He also accused the United States of lowering the bar and raising the white flag in the war on drug traffickers. I conclude that the resolution is null and simple. What do you think of the Russian baler speech on fire? Yeah, there' s a quietic to see if we saw it. The finale Daniel Bueno wanted to thank the Ambassador of Colombia is indeed an unprecedented fact what has happened in Buena Laura. Gill has been the protagonist

15:13 of this diplomatic earthquake that occupies all the specialized publications in Europe. Many countries are interested in returning to the spirit of Vienna and amended consensus. However, the taboo to avoid voting was buried this Holy week and open up ahead there will be room to call votes instead of extending artificial unanimity that have called for changes in the world' s anti- drug policy. To say the least, that was today' s sport, Colonel. Thank you very much. I need a bonus track, because if anyone can hear from Timo, you should know that you' ve been able to find out about Mr Timotin in July, since when this man' s identity became known. Timothy Alan Livingston was giving things like ana said. He lives in clivelan Ohio, even though he' s traveled by Lord Dave. He owns a house over there valued at$ 400, 000. He has no criminal record. All I found were eleven traffic violations that range from passing a red light to crossing the speed limit having an excessively noisy car. I also saw that he has a boat that went bankrupt at a time when he has four civil proceedings. Well, anyway, that' s Mr Livingstone, which is the character we should talk to. Yeah, we' re going to insist on his phones as well

16:48 as Ana Daniel' s. Thank you back to the report, Colonel.