I would first like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari and the Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, for their briefings. I welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of Syria.
Recent events in Aleppo and in the north-ea…
First, I wish to thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, and Mr. John Brandolino, Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Haiti, as well…
At the outset, I wish to thank Deputy Prosecutor Ms. Nazhat Shameem Khan for presenting the forty-second report submitted pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005). We regret that it was impossible for her to attend in person, owing to the lack of a visa. We remind the host country of its obligations under…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Ms. Marta Pobee, Ms. Masih Alinejad and Mr. Ahmad Batebi for their briefings.
We meet today to discuss the situation in Iran, and the briefings just delivered illustrated for us the extreme gravity of what is happening right before our eyes. Since 28 December, in…
I would first like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director and Representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva, for their briefings.
With regard to the crisis that began in December in the south an…
I would first like to thank Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Director of the Humanitarian Sector Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for their briefings.
The situation they describe leaves no room for ambiguity. On …
I would like to thank the Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Adedeji Ebo, for his briefing. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Syria.
The political transition that began 13 months ago in Syria with the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime generates tre…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Security Council in the month of January. I would also like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for conveying to us the United Nations Secretary-General’s remarks on the latest developments in Venezuela.
France has …
I would like to begin by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing.
France recalls its commitment to the unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Somalia, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. France welcomes the recent renewals of the sanctions regi…
France welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
CTED is a key player in the multilateral counter-terrorism architecture. It plays an indispensable role in assessing the implementation of Council resolutions and identifying targeted areas f…
I will be brief. I wanted to take the floor once again to recall three points.
The first point has already been said but I want to repeat it nonetheless. It is very clear that given the voting in September in the Council, the item is still on the Security Council’s agenda and it is within the remit…
I wish to begin by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his statement.
France is following closely the developments in the region, particularly following President Trump’s announcements about Venezuelan airspace and the subsequent naval blockade on sanctioned oil tankers entering …
I thank the Under-Secretary- General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her briefing on the biannual report of the Secretary-General on resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2025/814). Against the backdrop of our work in September and the Security Council’s implementation of the snapback process, we take note of the el…
France would like to thank the United Kingdom for presenting the text of resolution 2809 (2025) and for its efforts to achieve its unanimous adoption by the members of the Council. This adoption demonstrates the Council’s support for the African Union’s efforts in Somalia.
By voting in favour, Fran…
Almost three months ago, the Council completed the snapback procedure to reimpose international sanctions against Iran owing to the repeated violation of Iran’s commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This procedure extended the application of resolution 2231 (2015), which …
I would first like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Khaled Khiari, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for their briefings, and Mr. Cameron Hudson for his remarks.
We are meeting today to respond to the conflict in the Sudan, where civilians are bearing the b…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Representative Hanna Tetteh for her briefing and reiterate France’s full support for her work. I also thank the representative of Somalia for his presentation of the report on the activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011),…
At the outset, I would like to pay tribute to the decisive action of Ms. Bintou Keita at the helm of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) over the course of nearly six years. I would also like to thank the members of the Council for …
I first thank the Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. DiCarlo, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Msuya, for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Jalabi for her poignant testimony and proposals.
On 8 December, the Syrian people commemora…
First of all, I thank the Deputy Special Representative, Ms. Barrie Freeman, for her briefing, and I welcome the presence of the representatives of Benin and Côte d’Ivoire.
I would now like to make three points.
First, in the past few weeks, the region has experienced major upheavals or attempts a…
