France commends the Special Representative and the team of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) for their work. West Africa is an area of strategic importance for France and the European Union. The region faces myriad challenges and is one where our common future is large…
France deeply regrets the fact that the draft resolution set out by the humanitarian co-penholders and supported by 13 of the 15 members of the Security Council was not adopted because Russia, followed by China, decided to exercise its veto and to jeopardize the delivery of international humanitaria…
I would like to thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Ms. Rajaa Altalli for their briefings. I particularly wish to commend Ms. Altalli for her unwavering commitment to making the voice of Syrian civil society, the voice of the suffering silent majority and the voice of women, who must be heard and able to pa…
At the outset, I wish to thank the briefers for their statements and the Secretariat for its thorough and detailed report and for its commitment and professionalism. It may rest assured of our full support.
We are meeting today for the eighth time in this format since the entry into force of the Jo…
At the outset, I extend my sincere thanks to Ms. Ursula Mueller for her briefing. I welcome the participation of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait at this meeting. And I fully echo the congratulations expressed by Ambassador Heusgen to Kuwait on its outstanding contribution to the wo…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2502 (2019), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). By this resolution, the Security Council seeks to endorse the emergence of the Democratic Republic of the…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his intervention and Ms. Raemer for her testimony. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016) (S/2019/938). Three years after the adoption of the resolution, France regrets that …
I too want to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her briefing and her report.
As a key actor in the multilateral system and a permanent court of universal scope, the International Criminal Court requires the full cooperation of us all. More than ever, it must be able to successfully carry out its assign…
I wish to begin by thanking Mr. Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, for his briefing and particularly for his commitment and that of his team on the ground. I also thank Ambassador Wronecka for her briefing and her work as Chair of the Committee established purs…
I, too, wish to thank Special Representative Tadamichi Yamamoto for his insightful briefing. I also thank Ms. Aisha Khurram, who gave us an opportunity to hear the voice of the youth of Afghanistan, as well as Ambassador Adela Raz of Afghanistan, who, as usual, very eloquently advocated on behalf of…
I thank you, Madam President, for choosing to address the issue of intercommunal violence and violent extremism in West Africa. I also thank our two briefers for their statements.
The situation in the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin is extremely alarming. Grave intercommunal violence is reported almo…
My delegation regrets that a vote has been requested on the thirteenth preambular paragraph, given that it uses established language taken from resolution 74/2, entitled “Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier world” — namel…
I, too, would like to start by thanking President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their presentation of the fifteenth report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (S/2019/888, annexes I and II). I wish to assure them of my delegation’s full support as the Mechanism’s firs…
The Security Council has been working for years on the North Korean nuclear issue and, for years, the threat has continued to increase and worsen. The risks are not only real and empirical, but also extremely high
and growing. As we meet here, the nuclear programme continues to advance and fissile …
On behalf of the seven members of the Foreign Policy and Global Health Initiative — Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand — it is a pleasure to introduce, under agenda item 126, draft resolution A/74/L.26, entitled “Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive appro…
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your
presidency of the Security Council this month, and to assure you of our support. I also warmly congratulate Ambassador Karen Pierce on the United Kingdom’s excellent presidency last month. And I thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Mr. Rob…
I would first like to thank the members of the Council for their condolences on the tragic loss of French soldiers in Mali.
I am still moved by the poignant testimony of Mr. Kachi, which reminds us of the importance of our collective commitment. I sincerely thank him for his briefing and express my…
Session after session, discussions on Security Council reform succeed each other without the launch of any real negotiations. The year 2020 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the 2005 World Summit, whose outcome document (resolution 60/1) called for reforming the Council in order to make it more…
I thank Mr. Geir Pedersen for being with us today on the eve of
the second meeting of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva, as well as Ms. Al Hallak for her intervention.
There is an urgent need to silence the guns everywhere in Syria in order to create the conditions conducive to a political se…
I would like to thank Mr. Griffiths and Ms. Mueller for their briefings.
It is becoming clearer every day that a political solution must be found to the Yemeni crisis. As the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen has shown, we are seeing positive and encouraging signs of de-escalation, m…
