My delegation wishes to associate itself with the statements made by the Permanent Representative of Colombia on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Arms Trade Treaty and by the representative of Mexico on behalf of a large group of countries.
With this decision, the General Assembly has come to …
My delegation is grateful for the organization of this debate, and we welcome the presence today of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala. We also thank the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti, Mr. Nigel Fisher, for his briefing, and would like to particularly ack…
On behalf of the Government and people of Chile, I wish to convey our sincere condolences to the Government and people and the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the terrible loss of President Hugo Chávez Frías. We also express our solidarity with his family. After a long a…
Chile is grateful for the convening of this meeting of the General Assembly to officially launch the International Year of Quinoa at the United Nations. We welcome the presence today of high-ranking officials from Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador and the United Nations system.
My delegation aligns itself …
May I begin, Sir, by congratulating Pakistan on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January and commending the presence here this morning of Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary. I should like also to thank the Secretary-General for his statement.
My delegation endorse…
The delegation of Chile welcomes the introduction of draft resolution A/67/L.39 on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, prepared by the representatives of Sweden and India. My delegation welcomes the Secretary-General’s report on…
I speak on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the great Conference that prepared it, at which I had the honour to lead the Chilean delegation
from the preparatory stage up to its signing in Montego Bay.
The United Nations C…
Chile congratulates India on its presidency and thanks it for having convened this important open debate in the Security Council on women and peace and security.
My delegation thanks the Deputy Secretary- General for having introduced the report (S/2012/732), as well as the Executive Director of UN…
On 7 January 2011, the Government of Chile officially recognized the State of Palestine as a free, independent and sovereign State. On that basis, my delegation, in an act of justice and solidarity with the Palestinian people, voted in favour of resolution 67/19, which granted to Palestine non-membe…
I would like to begin by thanking the Permanent Representative of Colombia for preparing the annual report of the Security Council (A/67/2) and the representative of India for introducing it, at the 38th meeting, in his capacity as President of the Council for the month of November.
The presentatio…
Allow me to convey my delegation’s greetings to the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Peter Tomka, who presented a comprehensive report covering the period from 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2012 (A/67/4).
We value the great responsibility of the International Court of Justice and i…
I take this opportunity to express the Chilean delegation’s appreciation to the President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, for the comprehensive report he presented for the period 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2012 (A/67/308). The heavy responsibilities of the International Crim…
Mr. President, please accept the congratulations of my country, Chile, on Guatemala’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. The Chilean delegation endorses the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends of Hait…
Allow me to convey to Mr. Jeremić our warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to once again extend to him our fullest cooperation. We would also like to convey our gratitude to Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser for his significant wo…
The delegation of Bolivia has a distorted vision not only of history, but also of the facts. The 1904 Treaty was signed 20 years after the ceasefire. I reiterate that it was not Chile that called off the dialogue with Bolivia — quite the contrary. In spite of those circumstances, we have continued t…
I must respond on behalf of the State of Chile to the assertions made by the delegation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which is seeking once again to distract the attention of the Assembly towards issues that are outside its competence by invoking my country’s name.
Chile is a State that re…
One of the greatest challenges to the international community in the twenty-first century is strengthening the international legal order and the rule of law. Chile attaches the greatest importance to this High- level Meeting on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels. The rule of la…
The delegation of Chile supported the consensus adoption of resolution 66/292, “Global Day of Parents”. In Chile, article I of the Political Constitution of the State, on institutions, provides that families are the central nucleus of society. However, like the delegation of Costa Rica, my delegatio…
The Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly by consensus six years ago, is the international community’s expression of political will to jointly and in a coordinated manner tackle the scourge of terrorism, with the United Nations at the centre of responsibility.
Terrorism…
Chile voted against the oral amendment to today’s decision, thereby supporting the Secretary-General’s recommendations in his note contained in document A/66/760. However, that does not imply that there has been any change in Chile’s position regarding the occupied Syrian Golan, nor does it affect o…
