Botswana abstains on General Assembly Crimea resolution
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

The resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 100 in favour to 11 against, with 58 abstentions.
In explaining Botswana’s decision to abstain, Ambassador Charles Thembani Ntwaagae affirmed that while the Government of Botswana does not support the dismemberment of sovereign nations, either through unilateral declarations of independence or through coercion by external forces, it believed that at the moment there is a need to allow sufficient space for currently ongoing diplomatic efforts at the bilateral and international levels to take its course.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...