I would first like to join previous speakers in expressing to the Secretary-General, on behalf of the French delegation, my sincere thanks for the three high-quality reports (A/71/203, A/71/211, A/71/189) that he has presented today to the General Assembly. The reports paint a very complete picture …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her comprehensive briefing. I again wish to assure her of the full support of France for the activities on the ground under the particularly difficult conditions in Haiti during the past …
Faced with the unbearable horror of Aleppo’s martyrdom, the Security Council must again assume the responsibility entrusted to it by the international community to guarantee peace, ensure security and protect civilians.
We heard yesterday from Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Staffan de Mistu…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2312 (2016), which extends for 12 months the mandate on which the EUNAVFOR Med Operation Sophia is based, to fight against migrants on the high seas off the coast of Libya. I thank the British penholder for the very effective work done on this issue. Throug…
At the outset, I wish to thank the Secretary-General, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr. Peter Maurer, and the International President of Médecins Sans frontières (MSF) , Ms. Joanne Liu, for their very inspiring, concrete and operational briefings, which reflec…
France, alongside the United States and the United Kingdom, asked for this emergency meeting to be convened because the information we have received from Aleppo marks a new height in the military escalation and a further descent into the abyss that characterize the tragedy in Syria. This information…
France welcomes the adoption today of resolution 2310 (2016), which we co-sponsored, and thanks the United States for having sponsored it as well.
The resolution urges all States that have not done so to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to ensure its entry into force…
As the Security Council is aware, France has yet again violently and most painfully been struck by terrorist attacks. For that reason, I wish to thank the New Zealand presidency and the United Kingdom for organizing this ministerial meeting of the Council dedicated to aviation security. My ministeri…
While Syria has been mired in tragedy for five years, and while each passing day propels the country further into chaos and its people into horror, it is more urgent than ever to work together to seek to end the conflict. That is our collective responsibility. The peoples of the world are watching. …
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General for his presence here today, for his commitment and for his briefing. We would also like to pay tribute to the United Nations and the Special Coordinator, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for their work on the ground. I take this opportunity to reiterate…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for your personal participation today and for your commitment on this issue of such great importance to the Security Council. Let me begin by thanking Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, whom I welcome as the new Special Representative. I think he is quite familiar with Afghanistan, a…
I thank and welcome you, Sir. Your presence here today demonstrates the importance of this meeting.
France warmly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2307 (2016), which is a major step and pillar in the establishment of this historic peace in Colombia. It establishes the size, operational…
France supports keeping item 130, “Global awareness of the tragedies of irregular migrants in the Mediterranean basin, with specific emphasis on Syrian asylum seekers”, on the agenda of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session.
We would first like to thank the President for organizing this meeting at Egypt’s request. In view of the fact that the issue goes to the very heart of our Organization’s values, and requires the commitment of us all, it is important that we can all come together to deal with it.
In the past, alleg…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency during the month of August, during which you presided over two open debates (see S/PV.7753 and S/PV.7758) and two straw polls, two straw polls. The straw polls showed that the Council’s
procedures, which you, Sir, very e…
I, too, thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing. I assure him once again of our support in the exercise of his functions. I also thank the First Deputy Prime Minister and Min…
I would like to thank the Malaysian presidency for organizing
this open debate on a topic as important as that of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. I also thank the Secretary-General as well as the various speakers — Mr. Emmanuel Roux, Mr. Gregory Koblentz and Mr. Kim Won-soo — …
I will not revisit the grotesque and insulting musings of the Permanent Representative of Syria. I simply wanted to share — not my surprise, because, really, I was not expecting miracles from him — that I would have liked to hear the Permanent Representative of Syria speak about today’s topic, namel…
I would also like to begin by thanking Stephen O’Brien for the Secretary-General’s latest report (S/2016/714) and for his briefing this morning.
The Security Council is meeting publicly in order to give the humanitarian situation in Syria the attention in deserves, as the picture is dreadful. In Al…
The Council has just adopted resolution 2304 (2016), which renews and modifies the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
The situation in South Sudan is one of the most serious that we are aware of at the present time. Violations of human rights and international humanitari…
