At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, for his briefing. We thank and commend him for his hard work. We would also like to affirm our support to the new Special Envoy, Mr. Martin Griffiths, whose task will be focused…
My delegation thanks Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita for her introduction of the special report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/143). Likewise, we also welcome the presence of the Special Envoy for South Sudan of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (I…
Bolivia voted against draft resolution S/2018/156, submitted by the United Kingdom, because during the only consultations the draft resolution did not enjoy the support of all the
members of the Council and, despite the repeated remarks and concerns expressed, including breaking the silence, such c…
Bolivia would like to thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and the Permanent Representative of Switzerland, Ambassador Jürg Lauber, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
Bolivia values and supports th…
Seven years have elapsed since the beginning of this war, and the suffering of the Syrian people continues to worsen. The numerous human lives lost in recent weeks add to the more than 500,000 lost since the beginning of the conflict. We believe that while military tactics prevail over a political s…
We are grateful for the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/125) presented by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic, Mr. Parfait Onanga- Anyanga, and we take this opportunity to reiterate our full support for its recommendations. We also take this o…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait, who is presiding over today’s meeting of the Security Council. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of t…
We appreciate the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/110) presented by Mr. Modibo Touré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS), and the briefing by Ambassador Mauro Vieira of Brazil in his capac…
We thank Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. Miroslav Jenča, Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, for their briefings on the situation in the Rakhine state of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
Despite some positive developments on the ground, we …
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Peru, Mr. Gustavo Meza- Cuadra, for the briefing he provided in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter- terrorism. We wish him every success in his work in heading up…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his informative briefing. We also thank Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Vlora Çitaku for their statements.
The latest report (S/2018/76) on the activi…
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…
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…
