The Security Council has been considering the question of Sudan since the beginning of the year. It took up the question following serious events that endangered the life of the Egyptian President. It was following the attempted assassination of Mr. Mubarak that the Council requested, in resolution …
May I at the outset welcome the initiative that you, Mr. President, have taken in organizing this debate.
At the end of a year which will have seen the adoption of General Assembly resolution 50/70 — which sets the goal of the final elimination of anti-personnel mines — and the conclusion of work o…
The United Nations operation in Haiti is without doubt one of the great success stories of the Organization in recent times. It has made it possible to consolidate the democratic transition in that country by helping the Government to establish a public force that respects the law and is capable of …
Allow us first of all to express our satisfaction at seeing you, Mr. President, guiding our work and for the opportunity to congratulate the Ambassador of China for his outstanding guidance of the Council last month.
The French delegation supported the resolution that has just been adopted, as it b…
The French delegation was a sponsor of the resolution that has just been adopted. We voted in favour of it because the text reproduced the Secretary-General’s sound recommendations.
The extension for six months of the identical mandate and composition of the United Nations Preventive Deployment For…
It gives me pleasure, Sir, to convey to you the compliments of the French delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for May. I wish also to convey to Ambassador Somavía and his delegation our very sincere thanks for the manner in which they conducted the presidency of t…
The French delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted by several members of the Caucus of Non-Aligned States.
On 31 January last, the Security Council, in resolution 1044 (1996), made several demands of the Sudan. In his report of 11 March, the Secretary-General reported that the …
France is seriously concerned over the present situation in Lebanon. The spiral of violence, the increasing number of victims, mostly civilians, the serious risks to the continuation of the peace process, the violations of territorial integrity and the harm done to Lebanon’s reconstruction efforts a…
The French delegation voted in favour of the resolution just adopted. This resolution will make it possible for the International Commission of Inquiry to continue its investigations and to shed light on the rumoured arms traffic that is poisoning the political climate in the Great Lakes region.
Th…
The Council is discussing the question of Lebanon three days after our previous meeting on the same subject. Fighting has continued. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been forced to take to the roads. Men, women and children have been mown down. The French Government has expressed its feelings …
Today’s meeting of the Security Council, the convening of which was supported by France, must, in our view, pursue an essential aim: to support the peace process in the Middle East.
We can all see that this process is passing through a very difficult period, marked by the recent attacks that took p…
I wish at the outset to convey France’s pleasure at this resumed fiftieth session of the General Assembly on the question of public administration and development.
This is indeed a subject to which France attaches particular importance because of the inseparability of good administration and develo…
This meeting of the Security Council is a necessary one. It could have been held earlier, as Lebanon, with the support of France, had proposed. Members of the Council cannot remain silent in the face of the deterioration of the situation, which affects the security of Lebanon and of Israel, threaten…
Mr. President, allow me first of all to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency, and to commend the Permanent Representative of Botswana on the high calibre of the presidency under him and his colleagues last month.
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for taking the…
First, I would like to say that France fully associates itself with the statement made by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy on behalf of the European Union.
Since the last time the General Assembly was given the task of considering the situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti, gr…
The French delegation, which actively participated in the preparatory work on the draft resolution, supported the text just adopted unanimously by the Council. Indeed, the resolution will provide an essential tool for the long-term monitoring of dual-use goods and technologies in Iraq, once the curr…
The Security Council was first seized of the situation in Somalia at the beginning of 1992. The action taken by the Council at that time had two main objectives: to promote national reconciliation and to put an end to the very serious humanitarian crisis besetting that country as a result of the war…
The French delegation supported the draft resolution that has just been put to the vote. This resolution will enable the Secretary-General to create, with the agreement of the Rwandan authorities, a political office that will succeed the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), whose m…
Allow me very sincerely and warmly to join those who have praised you, Mr. President, and your predecessor.
In late December last, the Secretary-General drew the Security Council’s attention to the danger threatening Burundi of a humanitarian catastrophe on the scale of that experienced by Rwanda i…
The 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against President Mubarak reminded us that the terrorist threat remains ever present.
France condemned the attempt at the time, with all the vigour demanded by that abominable act. Today it renews that condemnation.
With a wisdom that we salute, the Ethiopian…
