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 …
Bolivia thanks the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for presenting the informative twenty-sixth report, in accordance with resolution 1593 (2005).
We have taken note of the progress in the investigations, as well as the difficulties that the Office of the Prosecut…
In view of the announcements made by the President of the United States concerning his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and his decision to start taking steps to move the United States Embassy to that city, eight Security Council delegations requested the Council’s presid…
Bolivia congratulates you, Sir, and the delegation of Japan on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of December. I also commend Italy and Ambassador Cardi and his entire team for having led the Council’s work in an exemplary manner throughout November.
Bolivia welcomes the presence …
As my first order of business, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his informative briefing today. I also thank Ambassador Cardi, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), for his work.
Bolivia once again strongly condemns the launch yesterd…
Bolivia appreciates the briefing provided by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, and we wish to assure him of our full support in the tasks entrusted to him.
Bolivia commends the joint declaration that was issued after the latest …
Bolivia would like to thank the Italian presidency and your delegation, Mr. President, as well as the delegation of France for taking the initiative to convene this morning’s briefing. We also appreciate the briefings by Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and of Mr. W…
My delegation wishes to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Ms. Bintou Keita, for the informative briefing that she delivered to the Security Council today.
Once again, we must voice our concern regarding the precariousness of the situation in South Sudan. The humanit…
Bolivia thanks the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing. We once again reiterate to him our support and gratitude for the work he is undertaking.
My delegation recognizes the efforts that the people and the Government of Syria are carrying out i…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI). We reiterate our support for his important work. We would also especially like to thank Major Anna Patrono for her briefing…
Bolivia wishes to thank the Italian presidency not only for the initiative to convene this debate, but also for its leadership in the negotiations on resolution 2388 (2017) and for all of its work on the topic that brings us together today. We also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and fo…
Bolivia would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Michael Kafando, and Ambassador of Switzerland, Mr. Jürg Lauber, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
Bolivia values and supports the efforts of the Spe…
We welcome the briefing by Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
We are currently attending a further meeting to address the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Over the course of this meeting, we have not…
I will also be very brief. First of all, allow me to thank Japan for introducing draft resolution S/2017/970, which was intended to provide a solution to this difficult process. This morning during consultations, we once again condemned the use of chemical weapons and advocated for the need of an in…
It is a true honour to see you, Mr. President, presiding over this meeting. We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his important briefing, and we take this opportunity to once again commend the way in which Italy is conducting its presidency of the Security Council this month.
The challen…
I would like to thank you once again, Mr. President, for your leadership of the Council at this meeting.
We are of course as frustrated as the majority of the members around this table, given another collective failure on the part of the Council to work together to extend the mandate of the Organiz…
