I would first like to welcome the efforts of you and your delegation, Madam President, in arriving at the adoption
of presidential statement S/PRST/2019/14. France firmly supports the chemical-weapon non-proliferation regime and the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons i…
I would like to start by thanking our briefers for their statements. I also want to express our sadness on hearing of the death yesterday in Mogadishu of the human rights defender Ms. Almaas Elman. We offer our condolences to her family, especially Ms. Ilwad Elman, who was with us the day before yes…
I would first like to thank Mr. Mladenov and Ms. Hary for their briefings.
Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal under international law, particularly international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and contravenes Security Council res…
The situation in the Sahel remains very precarious, with the armies of the region are on the front line. The fighting that took place on Monday at the border between Mali and the Niger in an operation involving the armies of both countries attests to the persistent capacities of terrorist groups to …
I thank the Secretary-General and the two other speakers for their briefings. I also thank the British presidency for having convened this debate.
France supports the momentum the Secretary- General has invested in diplomacy for peace. The United Nations must invest more upstream of conflict, in pr…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2499 (2019), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) for one year. France has actively worked to promote that consensus, and I would like to thank all t…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Mark Lowcock for his briefing and, in particular, for sharing with us his assessment of the functioning of the cross-border assistance mechanism.
The first point I would like to make is that we must take every possible action to ensure humanitarian access throughout Syria…
I too would like to begin by paying tribute to the men and women police officers and commanders working today in United Nations peacekeeping missions in what are sometimes very difficult security situations. Listening to Mr. Lacroix and the testimonies of our briefers today, we see clearly that it i…
I too would like to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her report and briefing.
A permanent criminal court with a universal jurisdiction is more essential than ever if we are to prosecute the perpetrators of the most serious crimes and break the cycles of impunity and violence that operate in too many c…
The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a detailed account of the various challenges that Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to face. I should like to return to three of them.
First, more than a year after the general elections of October 2018, the failure to form Governments and oper…
First of all, Madam President, I would like to welcome your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to thank South Africa for having carried out that function effectively throughout the month of October and for having led the Council on the Horn of Africa. I thank the Deputy Secreta…
I too would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Çitaku, Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, for their statements.
Respectfully, I would like to re…
France also welcome’s the unanimous adoption of resolution 2495 (2019). We are pleased that we were able to unite and respond positively to the requests formulated by the Sudanese Prime Minister.
This resolution also lays the strongest possible foundations for the peace process to succeed. Renewing…
On behalf of France, I would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice for presenting his report on the activities of the Court (A/74/4). The report attests to the important role that the Court plays in the peaceful settlement of disputes among States. As shown by the list of…
France welcomes the Council’s adoption of resolution 2494 (2019). At the outset, I would like to reiterate France’s full support for the work of Special Representative Colin Stewart and his entire team. I commend their efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of the United Nations Mission for the Ref…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General and the Ambassador of Switzerland for their briefings and, above all, for their work in support of peace and reconciliation in Burundi.
France would also like to see the rule of law and human rights respected in Burundi…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting and for leading our very successful visit to the African Union (AU) headquarters last week. I would also like to thank the two briefers for their statements. I would now like to highlight three points.
My first mess…
I thank South Africa for organizing this debate and for its unwavering commitment to gender equality. I also thank the Secretary-General and the various briefers for their presentations.
As we approach the commemoration in 2020 of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000),…
France thanks South Africa for its efforts in a difficult context and welcomes the Security Council’s unity. This is a victory for the women and peace and security agenda, which will mark its twentieth anniversary next year. France welcomes the fact that resolution 2493 (2019) calls for the full imp…
France, together with the European Union, offers its steadfast support for the two-State solution. We continue to defend
this position, not only because it is just and in line with international law, but also because it is realistic. It is the only way to meet the aspirations of both the Israeli an…
