I thank the Under-Secretary-General of Disarmament Affairs for her clear and enlightening briefing.
It is no secret that this meeting is taking place against an extremely worrying backdrop, in the light of which I will make three series of observations regarding the threat of a large-scale offensiv…
First of all, I thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her enlightening briefing.
The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) is doing excellent work by providing support to the Haitian authorities in a country where the securit…
I thank the United States presidency for convening this meeting. I also thank the United Kingdom for this very timely update on the results of the British investigation into the exposure of three individuals to a military nerve agent in Salisbury last March. At the outset, on behalf of France, I wou…
As this is the first time I am taking the floor in the Security Council during the month of September, allow me to begin by warmly congratulating the United Kingdom on its presidency of the Council in August and wishing every success to the United States presidency. It can rest assured of the resolu…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his very clear and powerful briefing on the latest
developments in Libya. I also want to thank the Swedish Ambassador for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee esta…
We wish you every success, Madam President, in your country’s presidency in September, which is never an easy month as it coincides with the plenary session of the General Assembly.
With regard to the provisional programme of work that you presented to us this morning, we wish to note our full supp…
I thank the briefers for their comprehensive statements. I also welcome the presence in the Chamber today of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes of Guinea-Bissau, and thank him for making the journey to New York to participate in our work, which is a very positive signal.
I have five brief comments. Fir…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2432 (2018), renewning the targeted sanctions regime for Mali for a further year. The idea of imposing sanctions on those who obstruct the implementation of the peace process in Mali is embedded in the very content of the Agreement on Peace and Re…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2433 (2018), which is a strong signal of our collective support for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), whose role is crucial to safeguarding peace
in an extremely troubled regional context. As penholder and as is the case every…
Mediation is a clear demonstration of the increased power of diplomacy for peace, as the Secretary-General has said. That is a cornerstone our Organization and a key part of the Security Council’s duty to maintain international peace and security.
The United Nations is the forum for great mediators…
First of all, we would like to thank the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Ging, for his briefing, which once again highlighted the grave humanitarian situation in Syria and the risk of further deterioration if the…
Allow me, first of all, to warmly thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative of convening this meeting almost a year to the day after the beginning of the crisis in Rakhine state. I would also like to commend the personal commitment of the Secretary-General in drawing attention to and…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, for her excellent briefing and more generally for her exemplary commitment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I also thank the President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo, Monseigneur Marcel Utembi,…
I, too, wish to thank Mr. Voronkov for his informative briefing on the seventh report of the Secretary- General on the threat posed by Da’esh (S/2018/770). I thank also Ms. Coninsx and Ms. Cook for their very enlightening briefings. I wish specifically to commend the outstanding work done by the Int…
I thank President Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his briefing. I thank him especially for his work on this important dossier while the situation remains volatile in a country that has been deeply and negatively affected by the electoral
tensions of 2015, whi…
I would like to begin by thanking Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, as well as John Ging, Director of the Coordination and Response Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative briefings and their commitment, as…
I would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Ms. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter for their briefings, which are always very enlightening, but unfortunately also bleak, as well as for their tireless efforts and those of their teams.
Civilians continue to be the victims and targets of the regime’s military…
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Óscar Naranjo Trujillo, Vice-President of Colombia, and pay tribute to him for his personal commitment to peace and the role he played in the negotiation and implementation of the Peace Agreement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Co…
I warmly thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, for her very enlightening briefing and, more broadly, for her exemplary commitment and action as well as that of her teams. I
also thank Ms. Justine Masika Bihamba, Coordinator of Synergy of Women for Victims …
First, I very much thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing, but more broadly, for his commitment and that of his team.
We have been saying it for years — the false status quo that seems to prevail on the ground is, in reality, a situation that is deteriorating daily and which could unravel and…
