Mr. President, I wish first of all to thank you for the opportunity that you are giving the Security Council to raise the delicate issue of the accumulation and spread of small arms and light weapons in the world. I also want to commend the Secretary-General for the very interesting statement he has…
I wish to convey France's deep appreciation to President Chiluba of Zambia for his tireless efforts to bring about a peace Agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Security Council and the United Nations at large frequently invoke the primary responsibility of regional organizations; …
I would like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly. It attests to the esteem in which the international community holds you and your country. I would like to include in this tribute the Secretary- General, who be…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for including this item on our agenda and for convening this open debate on the welcome initiative of Canada. I wish also to thank the Secretary-General and Mrs. Mary Robinson for their presence here today and for their statements, which attest to th…
This debate in the Security Council was necessary. We are grateful to Member States who requested an immediate meeting. Of course, Security Council members will have to hear the conclusions of the mission they dispatched to the territory to decide on future action. But it is only right that, with an…
I wish first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for this excellent initiative. Much is said among the Members of the United Nations on the lack of transparency in the work of the Security Council. I think that today you have taken an excellent initiative towards transparency, and we particularly ap…
After its long struggle for independence, Sir, your country is presiding over the Security Council this month and you yourself will serve as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. France welcomes this, and welcomes your country’s very effective and active guidance of the Coun…
Mr. President, we are very pleased that it is under the presidency of Namibia that the Security Council has been
The draft resolution submitted to the Council authorizes the deployment of new United Nations observers to Sierra Leone within the framework of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sie…
I wish first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, and to join others in congratulating and encouraging Ambassador Fowler on the timely initiatives he has taken this year.
It made great sense for him to travel to the region affected by the sanctions regime. Last year, the …
First, I thank you, Sir, for having invited the Security Council to join in the mourning and sorrow of the royal family of Morocco for the passing of His Majesty Hassan II. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for having represented the United Nations through his presence at His Majesty’s f…
The Council is naturally honoured that this meeting is being held under the presidency of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, and that it concerns a subject of great importance to my country.
Nothing can replace agreement by the parties concerned to apply peace arrangements in good faith.…
The adoption by the Security Council of this resolution is a decisive step towards settling the crisis in Kosovo. For more than a year the Security Council has been seized of the matter. On several occasions over the course of more than a year it has taken a position on the humanitarian situation in…
Today, in renewing the oil-for-food programme for a sixth phase, the
At the beginning of April the panel formulated ambitious recommendations to improve the functioning of resolution 986 (1995) and to assist the Iraqi population. We would have hoped that all these proposals would have come into for…
Since the beginning of the tragic events in Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the members of the Security Council have on several occasions expressed their great concern. But today for the first time the Council is indicating its feelings and its resolve in a draft resolution. We welcome the i…
First of all, the delegation of France wishes to express its
France is engaged in an action undertaken with its allies that is aimed at putting an end to the intolerable actions of the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a policy of deportation that has made it necessary and legitima…
During the formal meeting held by the Security Council on 24 March 1999, my delegation laid out the reasons for France’s involvement in the actions under way in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Security Council adopted resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998) and 1203 (1998) under Chapter VII of…
Drawing lessons from the tragedy that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and its partners in the Contact Group mobilized very early to react to the crisis in Kosovo, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. That action was aimed at bringing to an end the violence by the parties and at arriving …
The draft resolution that we shall be adopting on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA) marks an important stage in the pursuit of the process of peace and national reconciliation begun in January 1997 with the conclusion of the Bangui A…
I wish to thank Canada and especially you, Sir, and the Permanent Representative of Canada for your very welcome initiative of convening the Security Council and inviting the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Director General of the United Nations Children’s Fund …
