UN General Assembly
2011

up because we do not yet control agricultural production. Since the State has controlled basic services in Bolivia, electricity, telephone and drinking 13 11-50847 water tariffs have not risen, because they are basic. Public utilities must be the responsibility of the State, and not of the private sector. How can we allow water, the stuff of life, to be in private hands? I welcome the support we have received from the General Assembly for water to be a human right and express thanks on behalf of the people and Government of Bolivia. It is our responsibility to implement throughout the world the concept of water as a human right, thus supporting the least privileged when it comes to water. My third point concerns the constant struggle of peoples for dignity and sovereignty. In Bolivia I too have to put up with a United States military base. And what do the uniformed United States outsiders do? They command the national police and the armed forces, because of political decisions of former Presidents, those who preceded me in the Palacio