France is grateful to the United States for proposing draft resolution S/2024/239, for which we voted. The Council must continue to take action, as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is worsening every day. France demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and an immediate and…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
With this, the thirteenth meeting since September 2022 devoted to arms deliveries, Russia continues its disinformation campaign. Two years ago, it attacked a free and sovereign nation that was not threatening or attacking it, in violation of all the rules of…
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Ms. Msuya for their briefings.
I would like to stress three points. On 15 March we marked the thirteenth anniversary of the Syrian people’s peaceful uprising. The conflict has claimed more than 500,000 lives since March 2011 and has forced the displacement of …
I would like to thank Ms. Wosornu, Mr. Skau and Mr. Martina for their inspiring briefings. I would also like to thank Algeria, Switzerland, Sierra Leone and Slovenia for requesting this meeting.
We are meeting today in furtherance of resolution 2417 (2018). For the first time, a resolution denounce…
I thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan for his briefing.
The report of the Panel of Experts of the Sanctions Committee (see S/2024/65) describes the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed in Darfur by t…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this meeting, and I would like to thank the Secretary-General and the other speakers for their briefings.
We are meeting against a backdrop of unprecedented weakening of arms control and non-proliferation instruments. Russia’s…
I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her presentation.
Russia is once again organizing pseudo-elections in the territories it illegally occupies in Ukraine. It is a farce, just like the pseudo-elections last October and the sham referendums in September 2022. It is once again seeking to give a sem…
I would like to thank Hans Grundberg and Edem Wosornu for their briefings and welcome the presence here today of the representative of Yemen.
The attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea have continued despite the warnings of the Security Council, as the latest report of the Secretary-General on the s…
I thank Japan for organizing this extremely important open debate. I also thank the Under-Secretary- General and the briefers for their presentations.
I would like to emphasize three messages today.
First, the New Agenda for Peace proposed by the Secretary-General offers the opportunity for us to …
I thank the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for his statement and warmly welcome him to this meeting.
The European Union is a major partner of the United Nations. It tirelessly defends the Charter of the United Nations. The European Union and i…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and for the ambitious work you are doing in your capacity as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions.
The Security Council remains the only multilateral forum for the maintenance of inter…
First of all, I would like to thank Ms. Patten for her briefing and to reiterate France’s full support.
France condemns all forms of sexual violence, particularly conflict-related sexual violence. Those crimes are too often ignored, as is the stigmatization that survivors are subsequently subjected…
I would like to thank Mr. Khiari and Ms. Doughten for their briefings.
On Wednesday, Russian missiles struck the city of Odesa, killing five people. Some of those missiles impacted within a few hundred metres of a convoy carrying the Ukrainian President and the Greek Prime Minister, who were visiti…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
I would like to underscore five points.
We condemn all the violence committed in the Sudan, regardless of the perpetrators. A recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the most recent report of the Secre…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Ms. Gailani for their briefings.
This March, for the third year running, hundreds of thousands of girls will not be going to school in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of young women will not go on to university. Millions of women wi…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing and to welcome the
representative of South Sudan. I want to emphasize three points.
The first is about the elections. Both the 27 February report of the tripartite mechanism of the United Nations, the African Union…
France regrets that the draft resolution presented by Algeria (S/2024/173) could not be adopted. The situation in Gaza requires that the Security Council be able to express clear and strong demands on all aspects of the crisis: humanitarian, security and political.
It is unacceptable that the Secur…
I thank Mr. Ebo for his briefing.
The proliferation of chemical weapons constitutes a threat to international peace and security, which continues to require vigilance on the part of the Council. Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed a worrisome re-emergence of the use of chemical weapons, in pa…
I thank Mr. Rajasingham, Mr. Marina and Mr. Skau for their briefings.
The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Hunger and infectious diseases are spreading. The food supply chain has virtually ground to a halt. Water, electricity and fuel are in short supply. This situation is unacceptable.
We meet t…
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Griffiths for their briefings.
Allow me to highlight three points. In two weeks, it will have been 14 years since the Syrian people rose up peacefully to demand freedom and dignity. And for 14 years, the regime in Damascus has remained deaf to their legiti…
