First and foremost, Madam President, I should like, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and pledge our full support to you. I, too, wish to congratulate the delegation of Sweden for having so successfully and professionally guided the w…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the Russian presidency for having convened today’s very important debate.
We are gathered this morning at a time of roiling tensions across the globe, especially in the Middle East
and North Africa. Many con…
My delegation is grateful for the very informative briefing that we have heard from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, on her twenty-seventh report pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We have taken note of the progress made in investigations as well as of …
My delegation would like to welcome the presence here of the President of the Republic of Poland, His Excellency Mr. Andrzej Duda, and his delegation, and to thank him for having convened this important meeting. We also express our appreciation for the important participation of the President Emerit…
My delegation wishes to congratulate you once again, Sir, as well as the Permanent Mission of Kuwait, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. We are also grateful for the briefing provided by the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disa…
The Plurinational State of Bolivia welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2381 (2017), authorizing the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia to begin the tasks assigned to the monitoring and verification mechanism, which will primarily verify the achievement of the historic bilatera…
Bolivia wishes to express its thanks for the information presented by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haile Menkerios. We also take this opportunity to express our thanks for the hospitality shown the members of the Security Council during their recent visit to Addis Ababa a…
At the outset, allow me to echo the words of gratitude and congratulations directed to Ambassador Liu Jieyi for the excellent work carried out during China’s presidency of the Security Council in July. I also congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your assumption of the presidency of the …
To begin, Bolivia would like to reiterate its robust condemnation in the strongest possible terms of the use of chemical weapons. Such acts are unjustified and criminal at all times, irrespective of the pretext for the use of chemical weapons, whomever the victims may be or wherever such an attack t…
Bolivia would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing provided today on peacekeeping operations. I should like also to thank the presidency for having convened this debate, at which we can discuss the relevance of current peacekeeping operations and ask ourselves whether these in their …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China to pay tribute to Mr. Michael Sata, President of the Republic of Zambia, who passed away on 28 October 2014 at King Edward VII Hospital in London.
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I wish to express our solidarity with the Repu…
The Plurinational State of Bolivia aligns itself with the statement made at the 45th meeting by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The Bolivian Government — the Bolivian State — stands by the Palestinian people’s cause and supports the exercise…