My delegation would first like to thank the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Ramos-Horta, for his presentation as well as Mr. Atul Khare, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his statement. We welcome the role they play in stabilizing the situation in Timor-Leste.
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I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for having organized the debate that brings us together today. The statements of previous speakers have clearly shown not only the stakes involved in ensuring that the mission of the Peacebuilding Commission succeeds, but also all the challenges …
My delegation wishes at the outset to thank the Russian Federation for its initiative to organize today’s debate during its presidency of the Security Council. I wish also to welcome the President of the Economic and Social Council, the Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding C…
France voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted by the United Kingdom and the United States. We regret that the Security Council was not able to adopt it, because we feel that the situation in Burma calls for the international community’s serious concern with respect to important aspects of…
I, too, wish to commend the delegation of Slovakia and Ambassador Burian for the excellent work
accomplished since the vote on resolution 1718 (2006) and to thank him for his briefing.
France hopes that the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) can swiftly compl…
I should like at the outset to welcome the presence of Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (EU), and to thank him for his briefing. I should also like to thank
Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Mr. Ibrahim Gambari for their briefings.
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I should like at the outset, on behalf of the French delegation, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to thank the Ambassador of Qatar and his delegation for their conduct of the presidency last month. My delegation would also like to welcome the…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of today’s resolution taking measures with regard to Iran under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
This resolution, adopted on the basis of a draft presented by Germany, the United Kingdom and France, confir…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall and Ms. Liberata Mulamula for their presentations this afternoon.
The holding of the Second Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region is an important event with respect to a lasting return to peace and stabilit…
France congratulates and thanks the Member States for the adoption by consensus of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
This is an important text at the crossroads of human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1730 (2006), which is the result of the reaching of fresh insights and of a collective effort pursued, in particular, within the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban. It is a…
First of all, I would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda for their reports, for the briefings on their work and also on the difficulties they have encountered in fulfilling their mandates. I would like to reas…
I should like at the outset to thank the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Joachim Rücker, for his briefing. I should like also welcome the presence among us of Ms. Raskovic-Ivic, President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, and of Mr…
Permit me first of all, Madam President, to welcome your initiative in convening this meeting today for a joint debate on the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly and on the reform of the Security Council.
On the report (A/61/2) introduced this morning by the representative…
I should like to begin by thanking the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar for having convened this meeting on an issue that is crucial to international peace and security, that is, lasting peace in the Middle East. I thank the Secretary-General for his report and for his statement, to which we listened …
I would also like to thank Ambassador Qazi for his introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2006/945). I also wish to thank Ambassador Wolcott Sanders for her briefing.
Allow me to make the following comments.
Unfortunately, my delegation agrees with the observations made by the Secr…
First, I wish to join those who have already thanked Ambassador Oshima for the briefing to the Council this morning on the results of the lessons learned by the Security Council mission to Afghanistan. My delegation fully supports that assessment of the situation, as well as the recommendations, and…
In reading the report of the Secretary-General (A/61/816), one can appreciate the remarkable progress that has been made in the fight against AIDS in the past 10 years, especially with the founding of the Global Fund. At the same time, however, one cannot fail to be alarmed by two statistics. They s…
I should like at the outset to thank Under-Secretary- General Egeland for his presentation. Seven years after the Council resolved to address the issue of protecting civilians in armed conflict, he is still reporting on that distressing reality.
Like my colleagues who have already spoken, I pay spe…
France fully associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Finland on behalf of the European Union. In my national capacity, I wish to draw the attention of delegations to a number of additional points.
France naturally shares the willingness expressed here to commemorate the a…
