UN General Assembly
2001

the environmentally clean heart of the continent, while expanding our role and presence on the Pacific. Bolivia will thus take another step on the march that it began more than 120 years ago to return to the sea of our ancestors. Bolivia thus will reassert its unflinching determination to regain its status as a maritime nation, something with which we were born into independent life. 14 Bolivia supports the struggle against terrorism and for freedom. My country, more than any other country, is making a gigantic effort to fight the ally of terrorism — that is, drug trafficking. Given this effort, given our determination to be open, and given the need to fight poverty, my country calls for access to markets. Bolivia will play a central role in working towards reliable gas and energy integration in the twenty-first century. Finally, we realize that the long struggle for freedom and the fight against terrorism is just beginning and will end only when all the citizens of the world, men and women alike, will be entitled to vote,