I would like to begin by thanking our speakers, Ms. Loraine Sievers and Ms. Shamala Kandiah Thompson, for their insightful briefings, and I will endeavour to speak slowly, as instructed by Ms. Sievers. I also wish to thank Denmark and Pakistan for their stewardship at the helm of the Informal Workin…
I welcome the presence among us of the representative of the Central African Republic.
The text that we are about to vote upon (S/2025/737) provides for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) for a…
I welcome the representative of South Sudan’s presence among us. I thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary- General for Peace Operations; Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women; and Mr. Solomon Ayele Dersso, Executive Director of Amani Africa Media and Research Services, for their br…
I welcome you, Mr. President, to New York. France thanks the Sierra Leonean presidency of the Security Council for convening this open debate on a topic, which, it goes without saying, warrants the attention of the Council. I am taking this opportunity to congratulate Sierra Leone on assuming the pr…
First of all, I would like to thank Sierra Leone for taking the initiative to organize this important meeting. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Ms. Andersen, as well as Mr. Jalloh and Ms. Dinat, for their contributions to our work.
The …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Martha Pobee, and the Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Mr. Guang Cong, for their briefings.
Those briefings served as a reminder that the situation in the Abyei region remains tense. Given the regional context…
France welcomes the adoption of the resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for 12 months (resolution 2797 (2025)). This resolution is the result of an open process that allowed for numerous contacts with the members of the Securit…
France welcomes the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia and highlights its excellent work and the contribution it has made to implementation of the 2016 peace agreement. It is essential for the Mission to continue to play its advisory, support and galvaniz…
France welcomes the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2795 (2025), which renews the mandate of the European Union military operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 12 months. France also welcomes the presence of Mr. Željko Komšić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina…
France welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for one year. We thank the United Kingdom as penholder for leading an inclusive negotiation process that made it possible to achieve a balanced text. This resolution (resolution 2796 (2025)) usefully d…
I wish first to thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher for their briefings, which sounded the alarm on the sudden deterioration of the political and humanitarian crisis in the Sudan and called for a strong response from the Council.
As we have just h…
I would first like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, for her briefing and to reiterate to her France’s full support. I would like to welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of the Central African Republic.
The Central Africa…
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement, which reminded the Security Council of its duties and responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations.
It has been 80 years since the Second World War ended and our Charter made a commitment to the peoples of the world that never again would…
I would first like to thank the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, for his briefing. I also welcome the presence of the representatives of Israel, Palestine, Senegal and Kazakhstan.
The past month has been marked both by the painful memory of the seco…
I would like to congratulate Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu on his appointment as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and to thank him for his briefing on the situation in Haiti and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
At the outset, I would l…
At the outset, I wish to thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative and illuminating briefings.
The President of Syria stated the principles of the…
I would like to thank the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Shin, for his briefing. I also welcome the presence among us of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Marko Đurić, and of Kosovo, Ms. Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, as well as the presence of the representativ…
France thanks Panama and the United States for their efforts in adopting this resolution (resolution 2794 (2025)).
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2794 (2025), which renews the sanctions regime in Haiti for one year. This sanctions regime is an essential tool for the Council to…
First and foremost, I would like to thank the Special Representative, Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her briefing, and I wish to reiterate France’s full support for her efforts. I also welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya.
The keen interest that has been generated by municipal elect…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Xia Huang, for his remarks. We also thank him for his analysis and recommendations, which we support.
At our previous biannual meeting (see S/PV.9899), the Executive Director of UNICEF, M…
