I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, and Under- Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for their briefings. I welcome the participation of Ms. Mahbouba Seraj at this meeting and thank her.
I would like to address three points.
First, the human rights situat…
I thank Mr. Jenča for his briefing. The events that have taken place over the past few days are very worrying. In that regard, I would like to stress two points.
First, it is unacceptable that the flow of traffic though the road corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia has been blocked sin…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General, the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations for their briefings.
France is extremely concerned. Iran is pursuing its destabilizing activities …
I would like to thank Tor Wennesland for his briefing, which gives us a sense of the gravity of the situation on the ground. The very worrying level of violence increases the risk of further escalation. We share the concern expressed by the Secretary-General in his report.
The year 2022 was the dea…
I thank the Special Representative for his briefing and efforts to engage with Libyan and international actors. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Libya in today’s meeting.
The Libyan authorities failed to implement the agreement reached in the Libyan Political Dial…
At the outset, I express the condolences of France to Ireland following the death of one of its peacekeepers in Lebanon.
I thank India for organizing this debate. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General and the representative of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive
Directorate for their brie…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. I would like to welcome the participation of the Secretary- General and the President of the General Assembly.
The international multilateral order is currently being undermined by those who support the idea that might makes right. The idea …
I would like to thank Special Representative Nicholas Haysom and the representative of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development for their briefings, and welcome the representative of South Sudan to today’s meeting.
I would like to make three points. First, the 2024 elections have set a politi…
Once again, Russia would have us believe that its war is being waged by Ukraine, encouraged by the United States and Europe. On 24 February, however, it was indeed Russia that invaded Ukraine, in defiance of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. It was Russia that started the war …
I would like to thank Ms. Keita for her briefing and especially for her work as Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I welcome the participation in this meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
for Foreign Affairs …
France fully associates itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the European Union (see A/77/PV.48) and would now like to make a few comments in its national capacity.
We too thank Singapore and Norway for having facilitated negotiations on the two draft resolutions on our agenda (A/77/L.3…
I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abdou Abarry, for his briefing. France congratulates him on his appointment. We welcome it, and we wish him every success in his work as Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). I would a…
I thank Special Representative Volker Perthes for his briefing. I also welcome the participation of the Sudan in this meeting today. I would like to stress three points.
We welcome the signing on 5 December of a framework agreement between the military and a large part of the civilian opposition, w…
The delegation of France aligns itself with the statement made by the European Union (see A/77/PV.44) and would like to make the following remarks in its national capacity.
We have listened with concern to the statements on the increase in humanitarian needs, which have reached an unprecedented lev…
I thank Mr. Griffiths for his briefing and all United Nations agencies for the work they are carrying out in very difficult conditions in Ukraine.
Russia continues its aggression and is now using winter as a weapon of war. France condemns, in the strongest possible terms, Russia’s ongoing massive a…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The lack of progress is frustrating, but we must face facts. The sole responsibility lies with the Syrian regime, which stubbornly refuses to cooperate. As everyone knows, we are gathered here because the Syrian regime has used weapons of mass destruction ag…
Let me first commend Ghana’s outstanding presidency of the Security Council last month and wish you, Madam President, every success this month.
I thank Mr. Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/…
I thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Griffiths for their briefings.
The situation in Syria remains a regional destabilizing factor. The war in Syria is not over, and too many civilians continue to pay the price every day.
The recent escalation in the north of the country is a cause for concern. We are dee…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process for his briefing.
As the Special Coordinator said, the risk of escalation on the ground is real, and France calls on the parties to exercise restraint. We condemn in the strongest terms the two attacks that struck Jerusalem on 23 Nov…
I would like to join others in thanking Norway, India and Mexico for their chairmanships, respectively, of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertaking…
