I would like to thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Tayé Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for their briefings on the situation in the Lake Chad region. I would particularly like to thank Ms. Fatima Yerima Askira of the Bor…
France welcomes the initiative of the President to hold a debate today on an issue of great importance for the international community. France also welcomes the effort of the Secretary-General to place the maintenance of international peace and security, and conflict prevention in particular, at the…
France is in favour of any initiative to save civilian lives in Syria. It was in that spirit that, on 16 December, it proposed a draft resolution to deploy an evacuation monitoring mechanism in Aleppo. It is for those same reasons that France today voted in favour of resolution 2336 (2016).
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The adoption of resolution 2334 (2016) is an important and in many ways historic moment in the history of the Security Council. It is the first resolution adopted by the Council on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in eight years. It is the first time that the Security Council has
expressed itself s…
France abstained in the voting on resolution 2333 (2016).
We commend the outstanding progress achieved by Liberia since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2003. For the past six months, the Liberian authorities have been fully responsible for maintaining security on their own terro…
Three years ago, almost to the day, the conflict in South Sudan began. In those three years, civilians have been the target of unspeakable violence and abuse, amply documented by the United Nations, the African Union and civil society organizations. The situation in South Sudan continues to be one o…
On behalf of France, I would like to begin by expressing our deepest condolences and sincere sympathy to all those who have been struck by the tragic terrorist attacks over the past two days.
Allow me to warmly thank the Spanish presidency for organizing this especially important debate and to cong…
I thank you, Mr. President, for informing us of that terrible incident.
I would like to begin by warmly thanking our briefers, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Mr. Yury Fedotov and Ambassador Van Bohemen and Ambassador Saikal.
France associates itself with the statement to be delivered on behalf of the Eur…
I would like to start by saying that France also aligns itself with the words of condolence conveyed to the Russian Federation in the light of the criminal attack that struck its Ambassador in Turkey.
I had not intended to take the floor here today in the Chamber, as I really only wanted to speak i…
I should like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for the particularly incisive stocktaking that he has just shared with us after 10 years of managing the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, but also for his unremitting commitment to dealing with that critical issue.
Unfortunately, we cannot cont…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Spanish presidency for organizing this open debate on a key issue, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly by non-State actors.
I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for his presence today, his statement and his commitme…
I, too, should like to begin by thanking the Prosecutor for her report and for her presence here.
The goal of combating impunity, as set out in resolution 1593 (2005), remains as necessary as ever. The numerous acts of violence that the Prosecutor lists in her report remain unacceptable, and the re…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2323 (2016), regardless of nuanced positions. The vote illustrates the unity of the Security Council in support of the United Nations process. I warmly thank the British penholder for his efforts in ensuring the adoption of the resolution, which e…
I thank the Spanish presidency for agreeing to convene today’s urgent meeting at the request of France and the United Kingdom. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and his commitment.
As we speak, the worst-case scenario is occurring in Aleppo. The massacre of civilians is taking pla…
As the Security Council is aware, France has been struck several times by murderous attacks, including on 14 July, our national holiday. We will not forget the exceptional groundswell of solidarity from the entire world, the popular gatherings, the monuments illuminated in the colours of the French …
I wish to begin by thanking Deputy Secretary-General Mr. Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General Mr. Andrew Gilmour for their briefings. Let me also take this opportunity to express to Mr. Jan Eliasson the deep gratitude of France for his exemplary work on all fronts, beginning with human right…
France would like once again to thank and confirm its support for the staff of the Tribunals for the work they are undertaking in order to carry out the legal proceedings. While the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals is requesting a final extension until 2017 to…
I will be brief. The Council has been clear and unanimous in presidential statement S/PRST/2016/18, which was read at the start of today’s meeting. I will make three points.
First, the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains of concern. The country is at a critical juncture in ter…
We deeply regret that the draft resolution (S/2016/1026) submitted by Egypt, Spain and New Zealand could not be adopted. Given the extremely grave situation in Syria, it was and is the responsibility of the members of the Security Council to give their unreserved support to everything that would ena…
I thank the Secretary General for his presence today and for his powerful statement. I also thank the United States for submitting resolution 2321 (2016), which we have just adopted unanimously and which France co-sponsored.
After the January nuclear test, the launch of a long-range missile using b…
