I would like to thank you, Madam President, for your presence among us here today, and Colombia for having organized this open debate on peacebuilding. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General; the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh; his predece…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports (S/2012/365 and S/2012/421) and for developing the regional strategy on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as requested by the Security Council in its presidential statement of 14 November 2011 (S/PRST/2011/21).
I would also like to thank Mr…
I would like to begin by thanking the President for organizing this meeting and by applauding the efforts of Ambassador Rishchynski of Canada, who served as facilitator during the negotiations on the draft resolution (A/66/L.53) on the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
France associates itself wit…
I wish to thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Mr. Yuri Fedotov and Ambassador Tanin for their presentations.
I align myself with the statement to be made later on by the observer of the European Union.
The NATO Summit that was just held this past month in Chicago set a timetable for the development of the In…
I thank the Secretary-General for introducing his report (S/2012/376), as well as the various speakers for their briefings.
France subscribes to the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union.
The past year has seen significant developments in the area of the protection of civilian…
I thank you, Sir, for your initiative to convene today’s important debate on peacekeeping, a pillar of the work of the United Nations. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations and the Force Commanders for giving us a direct insight into their work on the ground.
In recen…
I, too, wish to thank Ambassador Osorio for his 90-day report and for his effective chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
The final report (S/2012/395) that the Panel of Experts has just delivered to the Council presents a comprehensive and d…
I would of course like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and the Tribunals for their reports (see S/2012/354 and S/2012/349).
With respect to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the President and the Prosecu…
I would first of all like to thank Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for his report. Since 2005, he has briefed the Council in a transparent way on the judicial work carried out by his Office and the Court. As he steps down on 18 June, I would like to take…
From 20 to 22 May, Ambassador Menan of Togo and Ambassador Araud led the Security Council mission to Côte d’Ivoire. This eagerly awaited visit was the first since 2008 and came a year after the end of the post-electoral crisis that led to more than 3,000 deaths.
The Security Council met with all Iv…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo for his third report and for his presentation today. I would like to make four comments.
First, France was one of the sponsors of resolution 1970 (2011), which remains an example of the Council’s capacity for unity and swift action and, more generally,…
I would like to welcome the President of the Transitional Federal Government of the Somali Republic, Mr. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. I would also like to thank the Secretary- General and his Special Representative Augustine Mahiga for their briefings and for their personal commitment to stabilizatio…
I should like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing. France certainly fully echoes his statement on the unity of the international community.
I would like to associate myself with the statement to be made by Mr. Mayr-Harting on behalf of the Eu…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Farid Zarif for his briefing, as well as the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Kosovo for their attendance today.
During our meeting last February, my delegation said that it was cautiously optimistic about development…
I thank Ambassadors Wittig, Puri and Sanqu for their briefings and for their work chairing the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001) and 1549 (2004). The Council has recently had the chance to demonstrate its resolve in the fight against terrorism in th…
I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on Azerbaijan’s assumption of the presidency of the Council and to thank you for having convened this debate on counter-terrorism. It is imperative that the Council remain actively seized of the matter.
As the Secretary-General emphasized in his…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2046 (2012). In the past few weeks, the African Union has done its utmost not only to prevent an escalation of the current conflict between the Sudan and South Sudan, but also to enable the rapid resumption of negotiations between the two States, under the …
I thank you, Madam President, for having organized this debate, which provides the Council with the opportunity to examine how the United Nations system can better help States to secure their borders against illicit trafficking and flows. I associate myself with the statement to be made shortly by t…
I should like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, as well as the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements. France associates itself with the statement to be made by the head of the European Union delega…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2043
(2012), which establishes the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria, with a mandate of monitoring the cessation of violence and the full implementation of the Joint Special Envoy’s six-point proposal. After so many months of obstruction, Sy…
