That sheer number of outstanding cases attributed to Colombia in the report of the Working Group to the sixtieth session of the Commission on Human Rights is evidence that the existing national mechanisms have failed to produce concrete results in one of the very important areas central to our mandate: namely to help in tracing the fate and whereabouts of victims, with a view to the clarification of the cases concerned.
That sheer number of outstanding cases attributed to Colombia in the report of the Working Group to the sixtieth session of the Commission on Human Rights is evidence that the existing national mechanisms have failed to produce concrete results in one of the very important areas central to our mandate: namely to help in tracing the fate and whereabouts of victims, with a view to the clarification of the cases concerned.