Allow me, first of all, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his briefing and, through him, to pay tribute again to United Nations personnel working in difficult conditions in Afghanistan. I also warmly welcome the presence of Mr. Salahuddin Rabba…
On behalf of France, I thank the Ethiopian presidency, the United States and its Secretary of State, Mr. Rex Tillerson, for convening this very timely and necessary meeting. I also thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu for her very informative speech.
The General Assembly’s high-level week will be marked by in…
I would like to thank the Ethiopian presidency for giving the Security Council this opportunity to reaffirm
its determination to fight terrorism and support the Iraqi people and authorities on their path to peace, stability and unity. And I would like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of …
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for having convened this debate on an issue that you know to be so important to my country. The issue of peacekeeping reform comes in response to two requirements that are more important than ever before: on the one hand, the need for re…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary General Jeffrey Feltman and Ms. Fatima Shehu Imam, Director of the Network of Civil Society Organizations in Borno state, for their briefings.
France is encouraged by the recent progress that has been made in the fight against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin …
I would first like to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, and you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting at a very timely moment, just as the Security Council has returned from its annual meeting in Addis Ababa with the African Union …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2375 (2017), which reinforces the sanctions imposed by the United Nations against North Korea. I thank the Permanent Representative of the United States, Nikki Haley, and her team, as well as every member of the Council, for their commitment to th…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2374 (2017), which establishes a specific sanctions regime on Mali.
The adoption of resolution 2374 (2017) is the result of a request by the Malian Government to the Security Council to establish a sanctions regime, without delay, in order to mee…
First of all, I should like to thank Egypt for its outstanding presidency of the Security Council last month and to congratulate Ethiopia through you, Sir, for having assumed the presidency for the month of September. You can naturally count on France’s full support for the coming month, which looks…
I would like at the outset to join all Council members in congratulating the Egyptian presidency on its extraordinary work during the recent month. Mr. President, you have organized the Council’s work with rigour, transparency and effectiveness, while at the same time allowing the necessary flexibil…
We welcome the unanimous renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year. As penholder, as it does every year, France assumed its responsibility and tried to keep the unity of the Security Council on renewing UNIFIL’s
mandate. It being necessary to pr…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s very timely debate. I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal and Mr. Youssef Mahmoud for their analyses, which enable us to better understand this particularly complicated issue.
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I thank the President for organizing today’s meeting and for his briefing as Chair on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) — the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Committee — in recent months.
Today’s meeting cannot be a meeting li…
I thank Mr. Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his briefing and for his work as Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I would also like to thank Mr. Dačić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ambassador Çitaku of Kosovo for the…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his very illuminating briefing.
I would like to begin my statement by reiterating France’s full solidarity with Burkina Faso in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Ouagadougou, which led to the deaths of 18 people. Our condolences go…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her briefing and initiative to lead the joint United Nations-African Union solidarity mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria and for being personally involved in combating violence against women. It is a dail…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2371 (2017), which reinforces the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea as a result of the ballistic
missile launches that took place on 3 and 28 July. We thank the United States for its leadership in the negotiations, as well as…
First of all, I should like to thank the Egyptian presidency of the Security Council for organizing this important meeting, as well as the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, for his very informative briefing.
With 13 active sanctions regimes, sanctions have …
First of all, allow me to extend our welcome to the new Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzya. We would also like to thank China for the remarkable way in which it conducted itself during its presidency of the Council in July. I would also like to thank Egyp…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his comprehensive and detailed briefing.
Over the past two weeks, the Council has conducted two urgent series of consultations on the crises in Gaza and Jerusalem. The crises are localized, but they are not local. Each thre…
