First of all, I wish to join previous speakers in thanking Under-
Secretary-General Pascoe and Ambassador Khalilzad for their briefings.
Iraq continues to face challenges that involve considerable risks to the region to the entire international community. They include political, security, humanita…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized the debate that has brought us together today. Last week, the General Assembly held its annual debate on the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (S/2007/458-A/62/137) and the report of the Secretary- General on the Peacebuilding…
I should like at the outset to thank Mr. Koenigs for his briefing and to commend him for the remarkable work that he has accomplished over the past two years in a difficult context.
France fully subscribes to the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Portugal on behalf of …
At the outset, I would like to thank the President for having organized today’s especially timely debate.
First of all, I should like to say that France fully associates itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the European Union. I shall therefore …
My delegation would like to thank the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy, Mr. Gambari, for their very thorough briefings.
Unfortunately, what we have just heard about the situation in Burma and the attitude of the authorities of that country only confirms our fears. On 26 September, the Securi…
My statement will be especially brief. France too supports the recommendation of the General Committee that the question of the admission of Taiwan not be included in the agenda of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly. France does not favour including that item. We reiterate the consiste…
France fully subscribes to the statement made by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the European Union.
France welcomes the General Assembly’s adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (resolution 61/295, annex). That event, which is the culmination of …
Allow me first, by way of introduction, to recall that the corrections read out by the President have not been included in the French version of the text (A/61/47) that has recently been distributed. Paragraph 21 (c) of the text to which we agreed clearly spells out the goal of continuing efforts to…
I wish at the outset to thank the Secretariat, and particularly Mr. Michael Williams, for the briefing on the situation in the Middle East. And I should like to take this opportunity, at a time when he is leaving his post, to thank Mr. Williams for his remarkable work over the past few years and to …
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this public debate. The involvement of the Congo, which chairs the working group on conflict prevention established in accordance with resolution 1625 (2005), is long-standing and active. We welcome this involvement and the…
Thank you, Mr. President, for your words of welcome. I am most honoured to represent France in this Council, which has such an important role. You and all my other colleagues here will find me ready to listen and cooperate. On behalf of the entire French delegation, I would like to express to Emyr J…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1769 (2007). The establishment of the African Union/United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID) is a decisive step in the international community’s action to put an end to the suffering of the people of Darfur and to restore lasting stabili…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your kind and friendly words addressed to me on the occasion of my last appearance in the Chamber. I am very touched. With your permission, I should like to say a few words to the Council.
First of all, it has been an honour for me to represent France a…
I already had the honour, on 26 June, to brief Security Council members on the outcomes of our visit to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see S/PV.5706). The visit was very useful. It was the eighth time that Security Council members had travelled to the Democratic Republic of the C…
I wish first of all to thank the Acting Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the representative of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the United Nations for their briefings this morning. I take…
The last leg of the Security Council’s mission was in Kinshasa on 20 June, and I had the honour to lead it. It was the Council’s eighth visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but this visit had a particular nature because it came in the new context following the elections, which were success…
France associates itself with the statement that the Permanent Representative of Germany will make on behalf of the European Union.
France would like to thank, first of all, the Belgian presidency of the Security Council and Minister Karel de Gucht for organizing this useful debate on an important …
I would like first of all to associate myself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Germany on behalf of the presidency of the European Union.
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your country, Belgium, for having provided us with this opportunity to discuss once aga…
My delegation too would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda for their briefings today. I would like to reaffirm the full support of France.
I would like in particular to congratulate Judge Dennis Byron on his …
My delegation would like at the outset to welcome the presence in the Council of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari. I would like also to thank Mr. Ashraf Qazi as well as Ambassador Khalilzad for their respective briefings.
For my part, I will make the following comments.
My …
