I would like to begin by thanking the representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi, and the International Organization for Migration, Mr. William Swing, for their detailed, significant and unambiguous briefings on the situation of migrants in…
At the outset, allow me to warmly thank Italy for having convened today’s debate on an extremely topical issue that touches all of our consciences. We also congratulate you, Mr. President, on your tireless efforts
that allowed us to unanimously adopt resolution 2388 (2017). France also thanks the S…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his edifying briefing and his personal commitment to addressing the problems that have brought us together today. I would also like to thank the Italian presidency for taking the initiative to hold this important discussion on our common ch…
France is appalled by the result of the voting as a result of Russia’s veto — its third on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), its fifth on the Syrian chemical dossier this year, and its eleventh on Syria. Let us be clear. We r…
France is appalled by today’s vote and the result of the Russian veto. This result is particularly serious in and of itself, but it is also potentially fraught with consequences for the future. The situation we are confronted with — the proven use of chemical weapons in Syria — is indeed one of thos…
I thank Special Representative Ghassan Salamé for his very enlightening briefing and welcome his continued efforts in the quest for a political solution, which, needless to say, is the only way forward in Libya. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Sweden for his helpful briefing on the ongo…
France welcomes today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2387 (2017), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). In a context where the security and humanitarian situation has been deteriorating and taking a…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2385 (2017), which renews the sanctions regime for Somalia and Eritrea, as well as the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea associated with it.
With respect to Somalia, sanctions, specifically the arms embargo, remain an important and con…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the Ambassador of Kosovo for their briefings.
France welcomed Kosovo’s formation of a new Government on 9 September in the wake of the legislativ…
I thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her fourteenth report and for her briefing this morning. I would also like to reaffirm France’s support for the Prosecutor, as well as for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a whole, in the implementation of resolution 1970 (2011), which referred the situation …
At the outset, allow me to thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, the Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, and Mr. Edmond Mulet for their very enlightening briefings, as well as for their outstanding work.
A few days ago, the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United…
I thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina for his briefing. More than 20 years after a deadly conflict, the Dayton Peace Agreement continues to be the cornerstone of institutional stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2384 (2017) serves to hi…
First of all, I would like to commend the appointment of Ambassadors Lana Zaki Nusseibeh and Kaha Imnadze as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. We know that we can count on their dynamism and their resolve, as well as on their ability to bring the views of de…
I would first like to thank Italy for organizing this meeting on the role of the police in peacekeeping operations, which has enabled us to adopt resolution 2382 (2017), the second Security Council resolution pertaining to the police, three years after resolution 2185 (2014). I would also like to th…
Let me first congratulate you personally, Sir, and wish Italy every success in its presidency of the Security Council. I also thank you for your high praise of the French presidency and assure you of France’s full support.
I also thank the High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi, for his…
The French delegation would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Ronny Abraham, for his briefing on the International Court of Justice’s report on its activities (A/72/4). The report is particularly useful to the Assembly and the States Members of the United Natio…
At the outset, I should like to warmly thank our briefers, beginning with the Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism, Mr. Vladimir Voronkov. We have already had the opportunity to congratulate Mr. Voronkov and to offer him France’s fully support for his initiatives, but today I once again rei…
First of all, please allow me to warmly thank the Secretary- General for accepting the request put forward by France and six other Security Council members to brief us on the situation in Burma. On behalf of France, I would like to welcome the Secretary-General’s personal commitment to this priority…
Allow me, first and foremost, to express my sincere thanks to the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Ms. Fang Liu, for her thorough briefing. I am pleased to see her again at the
Security Council table, one year after the adoption of substantive resolution 23…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. David Shearer, as well as the Chair of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, President Festus Mogae, for their thorough briefings. Faced…
