1. Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA), which completed its mandate at the end of 2004. The United Nations said that for about a decade, MINUGUA verified and expanded human–rights observance, and helped the country implement far–reaching 1''6 peace accords. Those peace pacts ended 36 years of civil conflict that killed an estimated 200,000 people.

2. He then headed the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA), as Special Representative of the Secretary–General, from 2002 until its close, after 10 years, at the end of 2004.

3. A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Guatemala, known by the acronym MINUGUA, officially closed in November 2004 after 10 years of verifying human–rights standards and helping the Central American nation implement its far–reaching peace accords.
'4; The accords ended the conflict that killed an estimated 200,000 people, most of them either civilian victims of massacres or Mayan indigenous villagers.

4. Carstens said the Guatemalan authorities offered assurances of their commitment to "continue the efforts necessary to mobilize the resources the country requires for higher investment in infrastructure, human capital and priority social programs." These efforts will be "key to Guatemala‘s outlook for sustained higher growth and social progress," said Carstens, "and I hope that the necessary broad domestic consensus can be found to implement it on a lasting basis." A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Guatemala, known by the acronym MINUGUA, officially closed in November 2004 after 10 years of verifying human–rights standards and helping the country implement its far–reaching peace accords. The accords ended 36 years of conflict that killed an estimated 200,000 people, most of them either civilian victims of massacres or Mayan indigenous villagers.