Allow me to join all those who have thanked you personally, Mr. President, for suggesting and convening this meeting and for having invited your compatriot, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, to share his views. As always he has expressed them in an extremely clear, precise, well-documented and thought-pro…
I would like to read a communiqué issued this evening by the French authorities, which is as follows:
“France deplores the chain of events that led to the American military strikes against Iraq and the serious human consequences that they may have for the Iraqi population.
I would like to thank th…
The report entitled “An Agenda for Peace” and its supplement stressed the importance of peace-building and proposed guidelines in that connection. The Security Council responded by endorsing assessments of the report in the statement made by the President of the Council on 30 April 1993, document S/…
The draft resolution before us is necessary. It describes a situation that has become intolerable over the years: ongoing conflict, external interference, discrimination, the assassination of Iranian diplomatic personnel, the murders of high-ranking United Nations officials, humanitarian crisis and …
France has voted with the other member States of the European Union in favour of resolution 53/34. In particular, it supports fully the paragraphs regarding Angola, Guinea- Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.
However, we would like to recall our traditio…
I listened closely to the new wording that the Ambassador of Argentina just read out. It was not the same as the technical revisions to the paragraph agreed upon in informal consultations. I ask you, Sir, to give the delegations concerned a brief opportunity to reconsider the issue.
The French delegation supports the draft resolution on which we are about to vote extending the mandate of the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) until 30 November 1999.
We firmly support this extension for the following reasons.
MIPONUH, under the impetus of the Representat…
I should simply like to confirm the wish of my country to have the work on the expansion of the Security Council conclude soon with a general agreement.
The position we advocate is well known: we are in favour of an increase in the number of members of the Council in both existing categories. We ar…
The proclamation of the Year 2002 as the International Year of Mountains is a very welcome initiative, for which I want to express warm thanks to Kyrgyzstan, which has enthusiastically and steadfastly inspired the draft resolution before us.
The draft resolution will enable us to strengthen interna…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to organize this most timely debate.
I would like to thank Mrs. Ogata for having referred to Mr. Cochetel at the very outset of her intervention. Mr. Cochetel, a high-ranking official of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner f…
The Security Council has been seized of the question of Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which poses a threat to international peace and security, and it adopted successively resolutions 1160 (1998) and 1199 (1998). In implementation of those resolutions, agreements were concluded between the…
It was said in the statement of the representative of Libya this morning that the tragedy of Union Transport Aerens (UTA) flight 772, in which 171 people died, had nothing to do with the subject addressed by resolution 1192 (1998). Resolution 1192 (1998), in paragraph 8, modifies the conditions for …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for expressing on behalf of all the members of the Council the feelings of respect, friendship and esteem that we all have for Ambassador Owada. I readily join in the wishes you have just expressed for the success of his future endeavours. I think it is quit…
A year ago we met to discuss Africa, on the initiative of Mrs. Albright, and asked the Secretary-General to present a
I would like to make a few short observations on the experience of the past year and the work that has been accomplished.
The number of conflicts on the continent remains high; it …
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election, which attests to the high regard in which the international community holds you and your country, and which France, as an old and true friend of Uruguay, welcomes. We hope that the work of the fifty-third session of the Gen…
The French Government immediately welcomed the initiative announced by the authorities of the United States and of the United Kingdom to hold the Lockerbie trial in a third country, in this instance the Netherlands. France takes this opportunity to pay tribute to the Netherlands authorities for thei…
The situation in Angola has deteriorated considerably in recent months, characterized in particular by increased violence and crime, the lack of any dialogue between the Government and UNITA — for which UNITA is to blame — the re-emergence of a general climate of fear in the
The delegation of Franc…
The situation in Abkhazia, Georgia, is of great concern. The resumption of hostilities last May caused some 40,000 persons who had returned to live in the Gali region to leave their homes. The patient efforts of international organizations in recent years to make possible the return of refugees and …
France’s position on the occupied territories, including
We have supported the peace process since its inception and have on several occasions — including recently, with our European partners — reaffirmed our support for the efforts of the United States to secure the agreement of the parties on pro…
This debate shows clearly how well-founded was your initiative, Mr. President. In this context, we associate ourselves with those who have thanked you for preparing, with the support of the members of the Council, a statement on children in armed conflict, which we will soon be adopting. This is a v…
