Deputy Minister Laura Gil leaves the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: they offered her another position

Finally Laura Gil will come out of Vice Ministry of Multilateral Affairs, despite requests from feminist organizations to keep her in office. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced her replacement while the official is in Vienna, as part of the 66th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

He Ministry of Foreign Relations He offered Gil to serve in one of Colombia’s four strategic missions abroad. Now they are waiting for him to accept this position and sign the endorsement, while his replacement will take over the last week of March.

“The doctor Laura Gil SavastanoFrom her new position, she will continue to contribute abroad to the development of gender policies. This Ministry of Foreign Affairs appreciates their commitment, their progress and the work they have done during these months,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Gil’s work has been recognized for the formulation of a feminist foreign policy that began with the demand for international agreements recognizing the rights of the LGBTI population and their promotion, as well as the withdrawal of Geneva Consensus who signed Alexandre Ordonez Against abortion.

“We want the gender issue to be fundamental in the candidacies that we present from Colombia from now on in international organizations,” the vice minister had said when formulating the inclusive policy. Decisions that have earned him the affection of social organizations that work for the recognition of sexual, female, indigenous and Afro-Colombian rights.

In several letters with hundreds of signatures, they had asked to keep Gil in his post because of rumors of dismissal. She thanked the support and assured through social media that both inside and outside the diplomatic service should continue to seek a gender approach in foreign policy. “The position does not matter, but the mark that one leaves,” wrote the deputy minister.

There Chancellery announced that he will “bind the chancellor’s office a gender adviser and feminist foreign policy. She is a feminist and gender studies scholar who will promote and work to defend and secure the human rights of women, youth, girls and people. LGBTIQ as part of the commitment and mandate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the achievement of the international agenda for gender equality, the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5, Resolution 1325 and its action plan. action and implementation of a feminist foreign policy”.

The senator Ivan Cepeda He expressed his solidarity with Laura Gil after the announcement of his departure. “My support for your excellent work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I hope that his contribution to the construction of the current government’s foreign policy will be duly recognized,” he wrote.

Elizabeth Taylor Jay He will be the one who will assume the vice-ministry of multilateral affairs. The new official was born on the island of Providencia, she is a biologist with a master’s degree in protection of the marine environment. He was Colombian Ambassador to Kenya and is co-agent in the case “Question of the delimitation of the continental shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia, beyond 200 miles”, before the International Court of Justice.

The Foreign Office noted that Taylor was director of Marine, Littoral and Aquatic Resources of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. With his experience in environmental matters, he coordinated agreements signed by Colombia with multilateral organizations.

The Deputy Minister will begin her work with Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva during a trip to San Andrés, next to the islands of Cayo Serrana and Cayo Roncador, which will take place during the last week of March with the aim of ‘Exercise Sovereignty in a State Navy Ship.