Mr. President, I would like to first spare a thought for the group of humanitarian workers and their assistants who were the victims of a deadly attack yesterday in the Niger, approximately 50 kilometres from Niamey. I express my condolences and the support of the French nation to the families and l…
I would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Mr. Mark Lowcock, Ms. Wafa’a Alsaidy and Ms. Raja Abdullah Ahmed Almasabi for their briefings.
It is essential that the humanitarian actors and non-governmental organizations on the ground can express their views of the situation before the Security Counc…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2536 (2020), which renews the sanctions regime concerning the Central African Republic for one year. In that regard, I would like to highlight three points.
First of all, I would like to express our satisfaction that the Security Council is demon…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Carlos Ruiz Massieu Aguirre, and the civil society representative, Clemencia Carabalí Rodallega, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome the participation in this meeting of the Colombian Minister for Foreign …
I, too, thank the Special Envoy and the Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings and I reiterate to them France’s full support. The violence that they described, the risk of an increasing military escalation and the humanitarian repercussions are a source of gr…
I would like to thank the Chinese presidency for organizing this debate on one of France’s major priorities, as well as Ms. DiCarlo, Ms. Mohammed and Mr. Dieye for their introductory statements.
While the terrorist threat persists throughout the world, the African continent has not been spared and …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2513 (2020). This text welcomes the recent progress made on the path towards peace in Afghanistan. The priority going forward will be implementation of the commitments undertaken by the various parties. Intra-Afghan negotiations must now get under…
I wish to begin by warmly thanking Mr. David Shearer and Mrs. Betty Sunday for their very enlightening briefings and for their personal commitment to peace in South Sudan.
After two postponements, we are now pleased to be in a position to welcome the establishment of the Government of National Unit…
I, too, congratulate China on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March, during which it can count on the French delegation’s cooperation. I also thank Belgium for its outstanding leadership of our work last month. I would also like to start by thanking Ms. Jean…
I thank the Secretary-General for his presence among us and, above all, for his tireless commitment. I thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
The Council met yesterday on the humanitarian situation in Syria, in particular in Idlib (see S/PV.8734). Today is our sixth meeting on Syria this month. The si…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for your statement and your visit to Mogadishu and to reiterate to you France’s full support in your work.
I should like to touch on to three points.
The first relates to the arms embargo, which remains an essential tool for moving towards sustainable peace
in …
I thank Ms. Mueller and Ms. Fore for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and your own, Sir.
There is an urgent need to silence the arms in Idlib and to establish an immediate cessation of hostilities. France condemns in the strongest possible t…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the presence here today of the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Heiko Maas. I would also like to thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu and Mr. Gustavo Zlauvinen for their briefings on the challenges ahead for the upcoming Review Conference of the Parties t…
At the outset, I welcome the adoption of resolution 2511 (2020). After a final push, we were able to reach a compromise solution that allowed the Council to remain united. It is therefore all the more regrettable that this unity was abandoned at the time of the vote, since the resolution just adopte…
At the outset, I would like to thank our three speakers for their briefings and to reiterate France’s full support for the Special Representative. I would like to stress four points.
First, France is concerned about the stalemate in relations between the Somali Federal Government and certain federa…
Six years have already passed since Russia’s illegal
annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Despite its guarantees with regard to respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders when it signed the Bud…
I, too, thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-
General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, Ms. Helen La Lime, for her briefing. I also welcome to today’s meeting Ms. Marie Yolène Gilles, Executive Director of Fondasyon Je Klеrе, in her capacity as civil …
I wish to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings. The continued mobilization of the United Nations as a whole, under the leadership of the Secretary-General, is crucial.
France calls for a collective surge to bring to an end the unprecedented humanitarian disaster we are witnessing …
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Chief Monitor of the ОSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for their briefings.
Six yea…
I thank the Special Envoy and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings and reiterate our full support for them. I also thank Ambassador King for her briefing. We have said it time and again: we must put an end to the suffering of the Yemeni people,
and a comprehensiv…
