I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, and Ambassador Costa Filho, who chairs the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ni…
I thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for her briefing, and I once again express to her our full confidence. I also thank Mr. De Roux and Ms. Sooka for their briefings. I will focus on five points.
First, the Colombian and South African experiences perfectly illustrate that …
At the outset, I thank the King of the Belgians for his participation in the Security Council today, as well as the Belgian presidency for taking the initiative to convene this meeting, which further demonstrates its
commitment to the protection of children in armed conflict. I commend in particula…
I thank the Secretary-General and his Special Coordinator for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of
President Abbas among us today. We are all here today in the presence of the Secretary-General because we share the conviction that it is necessary to resume the negotiations process betwee…
I would first like to warmly thank our briefers for their briefings on the threat posed by Da’esh. I would also like to salute the courage of Ms. Freij, who spurs us to pursue our efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat, particularly Da’esh.
The military defeats suffered by Da’esh show that the c…
I warmly thank Mr. Rama for his briefing. Albania can count on the full support of France in implementing the ambitious work programme that it has set out for its chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). There are three matters that merit our particular attenti…
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings.
In recent months, we have entered a new phase in the ruthless strategy of the Syrian regime. After the horror of the destruction of Aleppo at the end of 2016 and the battle in Ghouta in 2018, we are now witnessing a similar sce…
I too thank the briefers for their interventions, and I welcome the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/1011), which contains very comprehensive recommendations. The proliferation of and illicit trade in small arms and light weapons pose a serious threat to international peace and security. Thes…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2507 (2020), renewing the sanctions regime concerning the Central African Republic. As penholder, we are of the view that the text is a good compromise that we managed to reach following negotiations throughout which the delegation of France strived through…
I too would like to thank the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for their briefings, which highlighted how cooperation between ASEAN and the United Nations cover all the areas regularly addressed by the Security Council, and beyond.
I w…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his briefing and his tireless efforts to find a political solution to the Libyan crisis. I would like to reiterate France’s full support for Mr. Salamé. We support his efforts and those of the United Nations Support…
I, too, would like to thank Ms. Khawla Matar for her briefing.
I would like to address three points.
First of all, I would like to return to the issue of the tragedy taking place in Idlib, which we addressed earlier today (see S/PV.8707). It is a humanitarian disaster affecting 3 million civilians…
I would like to thank Mark Lowcock for his briefing. As Mr. Lowcock said, our immediate priority is to do everything in our power to end the offensive under way in Idlib.
France strongly condemns the intense bombing by the regime’s air force and its allies in Idlib governorate. The fight against te…
I thank Ms. DiCarlo and Ms. Muller for their briefings.
France calls for the urgent resumption of a credible peace process, at a time when the deterioration of the situation on the ground is a major source of
instability. That is especially the case in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation is dis…
I thank the Special Envoy, for whom I reiterate our full support, and the representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings.
The urgency of finding a political solution to the crisis remains and that necessity becomes more pressing each day. Efforts to de…
First of all, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations for his briefing.
Six months following the adoption of resolution 2480 (2019), our meeting today is an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made. I would like to make three points.
My first point is re…
France of course associates itself with the draft oral amendment introduced on behalf of the European Union and the reasons underpinning it, as well as the arguments made by a number of our colleagues. Nevertheless, given the importance of our discussion today and the precedent that draft resolution…
Before addressing the situation in Colombia, I would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for the two minutes of silence that were observed earlier, first of all in memory of the countless victims of the Haitian earthquake on 12 January 2010. I would also like to offer my condolences to Ambassador…
It was essential that the cross-border humanitarian assistance mechanism for Syria be renewed today, when it was set to expire. France deeply regrets that resolution 2504 (2020), which we have just adopted, reduces its scope from four crossing points to two and from a duration of 12 months to a dura…
I thank the Vietnamese presidency for convening this debate on upholding the Charter of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security. I also welcome the participation of the Secretary-General and Mrs. Mary Robinson and thank them for their briefings. Their message must be heard — …
