I thank the Polish presidency of the Security Council through you, Mr. Minister, for convening today’s important public meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine. Let me also welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Ukraine.
I would like to thank the Assist…
I would like to thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his informative briefing and for his commitment. I am also grateful to my Swiss colleague, Mr. Jürg Lauber, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for his…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Ms. Bintou Keita, the Permanent Secretary of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel), Mr. Maman Sidikou, whom I welcome and thank particularly for his exemplary commitment, as well as the Permanent Observer of the African Union…
I would like to begin by thanking the Polish presidency of the Security Council for taking the initiative to organize today’s very important debate on the protection of civilians, presided over by Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. I would also like to thank the Director- General of the Internat…
I thank the Special Representative, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his briefing and once again pay tribute to his tireless efforts to move forward the political transition in Libya. I would like here, on behalf of France, to reiterate to him once again our full and unwavering support. My thanks go also to …
I would like to thank Poland for holding today’s important debate on upholding international law within the context of the maintenance of international peace and security. We are very honoured today to welcome the President
of the Republic of Poland. I would also like to thank the speakers for thei…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Mauro Vieira, Ambassador of Brazil; Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs; and Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for their insightful briefings on the political and secur…
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his detailed and informative briefing and his dispassionate approach to a particularly troubling situation, the developments about which he has consistently alerted us.
Yesterday and today mark the culmination of a month and a half of …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Dačić, and the Ambassador of Kosovo, Ms. Çitaku, for their briefings. Considering the situation described by the Special Representative, I will unde…
Allow me to begin by warmly thanking Kuwait, Peru and the United Kingdom for their efforts in organizing and conducting this mission, which was a particularly important moment for all of us. I also thank Bangladesh and Burma for their hospitality.
The field visits, in particular to the zero line, K…
I just want to warmly thank the Member States for their constructive spirit and support, which enabled us to achieve today’s excellent result of 143 votes in favour of resolution 72/277. We are particularly encouraged by the support of approximately 100 sponsors. We are pleased to follow up with dis…
I have the honour to introduce, on behalf of its 90 sponsors, draft resolution A/72/L.51, entitled “Towards a Global Pact for the Environment”.
The unprecedented degradation of the environment is, we know, already causing hundreds of thousands of deaths owing to global warming, water and air pollut…
I would like first to thank the Polish presidency for having organized this important debate on a topic to which, as the Security Council knows, France is resolutely, consistently and deeply committed. I would also like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Oper…
I thank Ms. Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her report and her briefing.
As we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute this year, France wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the International Criminal Court to the repression of the most ser…
At the outset, I would like to thank the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his enlightening briefing and precise commentary on the latest developments.
More than 20 years after a murderous conflict and the Dayton Pea…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2414 (2018). I would like to thank the United States penholder for its efforts on the text. The resolution that we have just adopted sets out a horizon. It should enable us jointly to prevent any risk of escalation, to support the essential work of the Unit…
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his precise and enlightening briefing, as well as for the clear warning bells he has sounded today. We also thank him and his team for their exemplary commitment.
We have been saying for years that the reality on the ground is wrongly de…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his important briefing and for his exemplary commitment to sustainable peace. I would also like to thank the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Dan Neculăescu, and the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Mr. Smail Che…
Winning a war is one thing, winning peace is another, and avoiding war is yet another. Where the last two are concerned, prevention is at the heart of the solution. That is why France welcomes today’s debate on an important topic for the international community.
In the past few years there have bee…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s open debate on a topic that the Council should indeed address and for inviting Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth, and Mr. Graeme Simpson, Director of Interpeace USA. I thank them for their very insightful briefings.
I would …
