I warmly thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, and my Kuwaiti colleague, Mr. Mansour Alotaibi, for their very informative briefings.
As we noted prior to the last meeting of the Security Council on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see S/PV.8563), the D…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel for his briefing, which was as always very clear.
The situation in West Africa deserves our full attention today. In this regard, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) is a valuable …
At the outset I should like to join others in offering my condolences to Japan and to the Secretary-General, following the passing of Mr. Amano, who was an outstanding leader of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
I would now like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing, which provided u…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his comprehensive briefing. I also welcome the presence among us of the Minister
for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García.
This meeting is being held one week after the Council’s visit t…
I wish to thank Mr. Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Mr. Bousquet, Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group of the World Bank; Mr. Baldeh, Director, Transition States Coordination Office of the African Development Bank; and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombi…
I thank Special Envoy Griffiths, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs Lowcock and World
Food Programme Executive Director Beasley for their briefings.
First of all, I would like to strongly reaffirm France’s full support for the efforts of Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Lieutenant…
I thank the Peruvian presidency for taking the initiative to convene this meeting one year after the adoption of resolution 2419 (2018), which Peru initiated with Sweden. I thank the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, as well as Ms. Muganda and Ms. Ramyar, for their briefings.
I wish to highlight …
I thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their reports (S/2019/417, annexes I and II) and their briefings.
I would like to thank President Agius and warmly commend him on delivering his first briefing to the Security Council as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Crimi…
I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Mr. Lamberto Zannier for their briefings on the difficult situation Ukraine is facing due to a conflict that has, lest we forget, claimed more than 13,000 lives.
That situation is not the result of the adoption, on 25 April, of the law on the use of Ukrainian as a n…
We would like to thank Special Adviser Karim Khan for his informative briefing. In just a few months, he has set up a high-quality team of Iraqi and international experts that also includes an equal place for women. In that context, we welcome Ms. Salama Hasson Al-Khafaji, who is sitting beside him …
At the outset, I am most grateful to you, Mr. President, for
organizing this debate on such an essential element of the effectiveness and success of peacekeeping operations: a goal we all share under the Action for Peacekeeping initiative. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the Under…
First, I would like to congratulate Kuwait and its delegation for their presidency of the Security Council in June. I wish you every success, Mr. President, during your country’s presidency in July.
I would also like to thank the Ambassador of China for his outstanding contribution to the Council’s…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2480 (2019), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) within its current scope for one year. I welcome the presence of the Ambassador of Mali among us here today.
The resol…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2479 (2019), which provides for the technical renewal of the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for four months. I would like to warmly thank the United Kingdom and Germany for having put forward the re…
I thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his clear and precise briefing on the issues and challenges of his mediation efforts. I reiterate France’s full support to him.
I will stress today the need to silence the weapons in Syria permanently and without delay so as to enable us to move towards a cre…
I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ambassador Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, and Mr. Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Ambassador of Belgium, in his capacity as Facilitator for the implementation …
First of all, I would like to thank our briefers, beginning with Mark Lowcock for his very useful briefing. I commend his teams for their outstanding work in responding to the humanitarian emergency in Syria. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of the Syrian American Medical Society fo…
I wish at the outset to thank Special Representative David Shearer for his briefing, which was, as usual, very enlightening. It was particularly helpful that the Assistant Secretary- General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, was able to brief us today on the human rights situation in South Sudan, wh…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2476 (2019), which launches the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti as of 16 October and establishes its mandate for the following 12 months. The work of the Office will focus on providing strategic advice to the Haitian authorities and the Haitian Nationa…
I would like to speak on a point of order. France has not objected to the participation of the Head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre as a briefer in this meeting. However, we want to point out that the monthly humanitarian briefings are intended to give the Security Council an opportunity to rec…
