My delegation would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing. We also thank Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs,
and His Excellency Mr. Festus Mogae, Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, for their effor…
We would like to thank Mr. Michael Keating, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, for their detailed and informative briefings today.
We would first like to commend the joint…
Bolivia reiterates its strong, categorical condemnation of the use of chemical weapons and chemical substances as weapons as unjustifiable and criminal acts — wherever, whenever and by whomever they are committed. We believe that there can be no justification for the use of such weapons, regardless …
Bolivia thanks Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing.
We join our colleagues from France in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mali.
At the outset, I wish to …
It is a privilege to have His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan preside over this meeting. Bolivia commends the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan not only for having organized this debate, but also for its leadership in drafting today’s presidential statement (S…
It is a privilege to see you, Mr. President, presiding over this meeting of the Security Council. We are also honoured to have enjoyed the presence of His Excellency Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. We take the opportunity to congratulate his country’s delegation on…
We express our gratitude
to Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, for his briefing, We also take this opportunity to reiterate to him our support in his difficult responsibilities. In addition, we thank Ambassado…
Bolivia would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, for his briefing. We appreciate his performance and the efforts he makes on a daily basis.
The work of special polit…
Bolivia wishes, first of all, to pay tribute to the presence of Mr. Óscar Naranjo, Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, and to welcome him to the Chamber. We also thank Mr. Jean Arnault, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in Colombia, for sh…
We would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his detailed briefing on the bimonthly report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/1113), and the assessments by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Secretary- General on the firs…
Bolivia thanks Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing. We also welcome the appointment of Ms. Leila Zerrougui as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of …
First and foremost, given
that this is the first open meeting of the Security Council, I should like, on behalf of the delegation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, to once again congratulate the Kazakhstan delegation on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month and to assure it of …
Bolivia voted in favour of resolution 2397 (2017) because of its pacifist beliefs. We do not believe in war as a means of solving the global problems facing the international community. We therefore call for any military solution to be ruled out. Bolivia also voted in favour of the resolution becaus…
At the outset, we would like to thank Special Representative Tadamichi Yamamoto, Mr. Yury Fedotov, Ambassador Kairat Umarov and Ms. Frogh for their informative briefings today.
Bolivia welcomes the progress made by the National Unity Government of Afghanistan, which continues to promote reform meas…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her briefing.
Since 1948, peacekeeping operations have encountered great challenges. Currently, the most significant among them have been related to the protection of civilians and the asymmetric threats faced b…
First of all, we thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing today. We take this opportunity to reiterate our support for his important work.
The challenges to international peace and security facing the international community, in general, and in particular to the Security Council in…
At the outset, we thank Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and Ambassador Adamson for their briefings today. We would also like to thank Permanent Representative of Italy Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi and the team working with him this year for the impeccable work they have …
At the outset, we should like to highlight the work carried out by the penholders, whose substantial efforts resulted in a text that all members could support. Nevertheless, Bolivia abstained in the voting due to changes in the situation on the ground.
As a result of the Astana agreements, it was p…
At the outset, we are grateful to Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and to Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their respective briefings. We express our solidarity with them in the tasks entrusted to them.
The situation on…
Bolivia voted in favour of draft resolution S/2017/1060, submitted today by the delegation of Egypt, because the draft resolution reaffirms that the final status of the city of Jerusalem should be resolved through negotiations and that any decision or act that seeks to
change the status or the demo…
