I thank the Senegalese presidency for having convened today’s emergency Security Council meeting on the situation in Aleppo at the request of France and the United Kingdom. I would also like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura; the Under-Secretary-Ge…
First and foremost, allow me to warmly thank the Secretariat, in particular the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), for having made possible the Security Council’s mission to the Democratic…
I would like to begin by warmly thanking the Senegalese presidency for organizing this essential debate on the relationship between water, peace and security. I would also like to thank Mr. Danilo Türk, Chair of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace; Ms. Christine Beerli, Vice-President of …
I thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien and Ms. Elizabeth Hoff for their briefings, which once again give cause for indignation. I would like to pay tribute to the work that they and their teams are carrying out. Their briefings depict a relentless spiral of violence that makes it impossible for humanitarian ac…
I thank the four briefers for their introductory remarks, and the Senegalese presidency of the Security Council for convening this debate.
France fully endorses the statement to be made shortly by the Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union. I have four points to make.
First, t…
Allow me to begin by thanking our briefers for their enlightening statements. I also thank Senegal for taking the initiative to convene this meeting with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on a matter of such mutual concern — the fight against violent extremism. That is an issue at the cr…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General to South Sudan, Ms. Ellen Løj; Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Mr. Adama Dieng; and you, Sir, in your capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) on South Sudan, for …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2319 (2016), which makes it possible to renew the mandate of the joint mechanism for the investigation and attribution of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism, for one year.
This is a time of unity on t…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for the very comprehensive briefing on the situation that he gave via video-teleconference from Pristina, and we reiterate our full support to him as he carries out his important functions. I also thank the First Deputy Pr…
I would like to thank Senegal for having organized our debate
today on the role of police. I would also like to thank Mr. Ladsous and the heads of police components with us today for their briefings.
Allow me to address the general approach of improving United Nations police performance. In conven…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her twelfth report and her briefing. I would like to reaffirm France’s support for the Prosecutor and the International Criminal Court as a whole, and also to commend her on her successful implementation of resolution 1970 (2011),
which referred the sit…
I begin by thanking the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina for his briefing and aligning myself with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union shortly.
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2315 (2016), which shows that all members of the Council…
I would like to begin by warmly thanking the Senegalese presidency for convening this meeting on a very important topic for the Security Council and for the United Nations in general. I also to thank today’s briefers: Mr. Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Ms. Michaëlle Je…
Allow me to thank Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, whose valuable and continued efforts we welcome; Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; and Muhannad Hadi, World Food Programme Regional Director, for their briefings and their c…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2314 (2016). France wholeheartedly supports the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons- United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) and therefore, of course, today’s resolution, which enables us to extend the JIM’s mandate unt…
I would like to begin by thanking the representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States for their briefings on the actions carried out by their respective organizations.
The concept note prepared by the R…
The delegation of France wishes to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Ronny Abraham, for his introduction of the Court’s annual report (A/71/4). The report is excellent and helpful and confirms the Court’s importance in the peaceful settlement of disputes between States…
As the representative of a country so profoundly attached to the United Nations and its values, I would like to clarify several points.
First, I thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien for his briefing, his courage and the work that he and his team have carried out. When the credibility of a major Office of the …
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and the Russian presidency for organizing today’s debate on a subject that, since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) 16 years ago, has been a priority of the highest order for France in the Security Council. I also thank Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka …
I wish to begin by thanking Mr. Nikolay Mladenov and Mr. Stephen O’Brien for their statements, as well as their commitments.
France has long been aware of the alarming fact that the so-called status quo in the Middle East is deteriorating and is doing so on a daily basis, affecting both populations…
