Mr. President, thank you for your words of welcome. It is a pleasure to be here in the Council once again and to work with you and the other members of the Council and with the Secretary-General and his representatives. I assure you that you can always count on my full cooperation and that of the Fr…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Sharma for his statement and for the excellent work that he has been doing. France fully associates itself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Denmark on behalf of the European Union, but I would like to add a few comments.
First, I should li…
This is an emotional moment for me, taking leave of my colleagues at this last public meeting in which I will have had the honour of having taken part.
Our Council has become somewhat a family for the 15 members who make it up. I think we probably spend more time together than we do with our real f…
France considers that the resolution that has just been adopted unanimously is a good resolution for the following reasons. The resolution strengthens the role and authority of the Security Council. That was the main and constant objective of France throughout the negotiations which have just conclu…
Allow me, Sir, to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2002/1126). I would also like to express our gratitude to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his very useful and precise account on the municipal elections just held in Kosovo.
My delegation naturally supports the statemen…
As this is our first formal meeting in November, I should like to express to you, Sir, France’s wishes for every success
as you preside over the Council during this extremely important month for the future of the United Nations. I should like to add to those customary compliments a very particular …
I thank the Secretary-General for his presence at the opening of this meeting, but also, and above all, for his commitment to this great undertaking.
Just one set of figures enables us to measure the scope of today’s debate. During the First World War, 80 per cent of those who died in combat were m…
As you requested, Mr. President, I shall confine myself to some brief comments. Allow me first to congratulate Lord Ashdown on the work that he has already done in the space of a few months. I wish also to pay special tribute to Jacques Paul Klein, who has had a successful and outstanding tenure in …
I would like first of all to join in the unanimous condemnation expressed in the Assembly and, yesterday, in the Security Council, with regard to the Bali tragedy. I would like, on behalf of France, to convey our condolences to the bereaved families, both Indonesian and those of other countries.
I …
First of all, Mr. President, I wish to thank you for organizing this debate on small arms. I also thank the Secretary- General for his report and Mr. Dhanapala for his supplementary comments.
France associates itself fully with the statement that will be made by Denmark, which currently holds the p…
We wish to express our best wishes at the beginning of a month that is very important to the Security Council regarding
international peace and security. We have full confidence in you, Mr. President, and in your team.
France would like to associate itself in advance with the statement to be deliv…
I had a text to read out, but I think that after Ambassador Mahbubani’s long statement, I will instead contribute to a spontaneous discussion, at the risk of having appear in the verbatim record statements that are not carefully weighed word by word.
Kishore Mahbubani’s final comment was interestin…
France fully endorses the statement to be made shortly by the
representative of Denmark on behalf of the European Union.
The situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories has tragically deteriorated in recent days. Given the responsibilities conferred upon the Security Council by the Charter…
At the present time, and we are all delighted at this, the main crises on the African continent are moving towards stabilization. Prospects for peace are appearing on the horizon in Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and even in the Great Lakes. This results, in the main, from the efforts of Africans …
I wish at the outset to pay tribute to the remarkable work of the Secretary-General, who, through his outstanding personal qualities and sense of dialogue, gives our Organization unparalleled influence. I congratulate Mr. Jan Kavan on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty- s…
In accordance with Article 4 of the Charter, and following the adoption of Security Council resolution 1426 (2002) of 24 July 2002, which recommends to the General Assembly that the Swiss Confederation be admitted to membership in the United Nations, it is my honour, on behalf of the five friendly c…
I wish to pay tribute to you, Sir, for personally presiding over our work on Kosovo today. I also wish to thank Hédi Annabi for his very complete briefing on the situation in Kosovo.
As Mr. Annabi has told us, a few weeks away from municipal elections in Kosovo, we find ourselves at a crossroads on…
I would like to thank Mr. Michael Steiner for his excellent briefing and also welcome Mr. Čović, the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and the President of the Coordinating Centre of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo.
Since the representative of Denmark will soo…
Once again the Council is obliged to meet because of a tragic worsening of the situation in the Middle East. France and the European Union have strongly condemned the Israeli military action taken on 22 July in a densely populated area of the Gaza Strip. That attack resulted in a large number of dea…
I wish to begin by warmly welcoming Lakhdar Brahimi in our midst. It is difficult to steal him away from the Afghan people, who have adopted him. He has been an honorary citizen since the Loya Jirga met and conferred that honour on him. However, we need to hear him on a regular basis, because each t…
