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Muñoz Ponce

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2023-11-20
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2023-11-20
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  1. “Investing in development means investing in a better future for our people so that they can live well, with no one left behind.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “It is now more urgent than ever to recognize our varying capacities and potentials and base our work on that, because new inequalities are appearing alongside existing ones. For example, the rapid advance of emerging technologies is leaving behind a majority of the world’s population, including the poorest and most vulnerable individuals. In response, as an international community, we must learn from the past and not reproduce or widen gaps in the distribution of the benefits or costs of what the future holds, both within and among countries. Lastly, Bolivia welcomes the opportunity to have this debate and reaffirms that building peace involves equity and justice in three dimensions — economic, social and ecological.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “Our efforts must focus on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We must do it without prevaricating or weakening previously established agreements. We must work without delay to increase the number of regions declared zones of peace, through an inclusive and solid multilateral framework. To that end, as has already been pointed out many times, structural reform of the international financial architecture, including multilateral development banks, is essential, as is international cooperation on taxation and the very way in which we understand development. That reform should be based on the various existing visions of the future, so that States do not fall victim to homogenizing processes.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “Their purpose would be to guarantee the basic material conditions necessary for lasting peace. In the medium term, as we make progress in building trust and real international solidarity in confronting hegemonic interests, stability and security can be maintained if existing development financing commitments are upheld and if war-related expenditures are redirected towards reinforcing countries’ productive capacities, while respecting the sovereignty of all States. Our peoples will see a different future on the day that international cooperation efforts are based on complementarity and reciprocity and on the recognition of responsibilities and historic debts, and when those efforts cease to be used as a means of coercion.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “Bolivia firmly believes that only social justice can make international peace and security possible, when all human beings, simply because they are human beings, can access quality education, patient-centred health care, decent housing, basic services and the recognition of their dignity as people. The international community must therefore think carefully and act coherently. It is unfathomable that at a time when thousands of girls, boys, young people and adults are desperately seeking — and often not finding — a mouthful of food, billions of dollars are being funnelled into the manufacture of weapons and war. We must work swiftly and urgently so that one day in the not-too-distant future, we in the United Nations can agree to deploy sustainable development teams at States’ request rather than peacekeeping missions.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “Ms. Muñoz Ponce (Plurinational State of Bolivia) (spoke in Spanish): The Plurinational State of Bolivia thanks the Chinese presidency of the Security Council for convening this debate on an issue as important as the maintenance of international peace and security through common development. We also welcome the briefings we heard today. Unequal development has historically been the result of processes of dispossession, occupation and colonization, and has led to profound disparities in our countries’ paths to building our peoples’ welfare. We only have to glance through history to confirm that the causes of war are generally conflicts over the distribution and redistribution of resources or the seizure of the resources that Mother Earth has to offer.”

    2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482Resumption1 (2023) · source