I thank the Assistant-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her informative briefing. I also would welcome the presence at this table of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, Her Excellency Ms. Kamissa Camara. Her participa…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, to whom I wish once again to pay tribute; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Zambia; the President of the Commission élector…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) for his briefing, which, as always, was very enlightening.
UNOWAS is a valuable tool that enables the United Nations to play a role not only in conflict preventio…
I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for their very precise and enlightening briefings, as well as for their exemplary commitment…
I would like to start with a friendly but important remark concerning procedure. Multilingualism is a fundamental value of the Organization. The adoption of resolution 2451 (2018) in a single language is linked to exceptional circumstances and should not constitute a precedent.
That being said, Fra…
I thank Mr. Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Vieira, Chair of the Guinea- Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
France welcomes the positive developments that have taken place in recent months in Guinea-Bissau, particul…
The situation at the heart of resolution 73/257, which the General Assembly just adopted, relates to the non-fulfilment of a decision of the International Court of Justice in a case between Mexico and the United States. In that regard, France wishes to reaffirm its adherence to the obligation incumb…
At the outset, I would like to thank Côte d’Ivoire for having made the Sahel a priority of its Security Council presidency. We strongly support that choice because we are convinced that the challenges facing the Sahel region call for an ambitious and coordinated response by the international communi…
I warmly thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan De Mistura, for his particularly important briefing. More broadly, on behalf of France I would like to offer him our deep gratitude for his exemplary engagement and intensive and tireless efforts over the past four year…
I would like to begin by thanking the two facilitators of the negotiations, the Permanent Representatives of Switzerland and Mexico, for their significant efforts. I also wish to congratulate Morocco on organizing the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Reg…
I express my gratitude to Mr. Fedotov for his enlightening briefing on drug trafficking in West Africa and the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I also wish to thank Côte d’Ivoire through you, Mr. President, for having put this topic on the Council’s agenda. Like you, Sir…
I thank Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing on the latest developments along the Blue Line.
I would like to begin by acknowledging the outstanding work of the personnel of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who have shown exceptional capacity to respond in recent days and made i…
On this twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, we pay tribute to the women and men who embody the spirit of the Universal Declaration of…
At the outset, I wish to express our gratitude to the three briefers for their enlightening briefings and for their ongoing commitment to peace in South Sudan.
I would like to focus on three main points: the peace process, the humanitarian situation and the Regional Protection Force of the United N…
At the outset, I should like to thank Nikolay Mladenov for his briefing, which was, as usual, most enlightening, as well as for his commitment day in and day out. I join other members of the Council, on principle, to express our regret that the quarterly report presented
to us today pursuant to res…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his very useful briefing, in particular on peace efforts and the electoral process. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for his briefing on the f…
I thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his very informative presentation, and I especially want to welcome President Vučić and President Thaçi to our meeting.
This meeting comes in the wake of recent decisions by Kosovo’s Parliament on the evolutio…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her twenty-eighth report and for her briefing, as well as for the progress made regarding the situation in Darfur.
On behalf of France, I would like to thank the Prosecutor and her teams for the indispensable work they are carrying out o…
First of all, I would like to thank Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for their briefings, which provide us with a comprehensive update after the Stockholm discussions.
I would like to start by joining my voice to those of the other me…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Louncény Fall, for his briefing and, in particular, for his efforts at the helm of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa
(UNOCA). France shares his overall analysis of the situation in Centr…
