I too thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the comprehensive briefing on the situation he gave us from Pristina. I also thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and the Ambassador of Kosovo, Ms. Vlora Çitaku, for their stat…
I should like to welcome the presence in the Council today of His Excellency Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, and to thank him for his particularly enlightening statement. On behalf of my country, I should like also warmly to congratulate Germany on its assumptio…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 (2016), which endorses the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria, which will enter into force in less than one hour. France has lent its full support to the
adoption of the resolution, which offers hope for an immediate improvement of …
At the outset, I would like to thank and congratulate the Ambassador of Venezuela and his entire team for the significant work they have carried out this month and for a very productive presidency. With a smile, you, Mr. President, have imposed on us an intensive programme of work with a record numb…
I should also like to begin by thanking Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal for their respective valuable contributions to this debate.
Peacebuilding is an essential subject, and we all agree on highlighting its importance. We are also in full agreement that the United Nations needs to do more i…
France, like others, pays tribute to former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was a great leader both of the United Nations and la francophonie. His passing fills us with sorrow, and we extend our condolences to his bereaved friends and family.
I thank the Chair of the Committee establis…
At the outset, I thank the Venezuelan presidency of the Security Council for having convened today’s debate on respect for the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations as a key element for the maintenance of international peace and security. Following the debate convened by the U…
I would first like to associate myself with the statement delivered by the observer of the European Union.
I would like to emphasize that we believe the Plan of Action to Prevention Violent Extremism (A/70/674) presented by the Secretary-General on 15 January to be of major importance. France there…
I thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate under your presidency on the working methods of the subsidiary organs, in particular the sanctions committees. We attach great importance to the proper functioning of the sanctions committees, which are now at the heart of the activity of the Securi…
I would like to begin by warmly thanking the Ambassador of Uruguay and his team for all the excellent work they carried out this month. It is no easy task to join the Council and immediately assume such a heavy presidency. You, Mr. President, did so brilliantly and with great competency and professi…
On 21 and 22 January, the Security Council visited Burundi for the second time in less than a year, following the trip we organized under the French presidency of the Council in March 2015. As one of the organizers of the mission, along with the United States and Angola, I have the honour, as is cus…
Allow me to reiterate the message of France with regard to the situation in the Middle East: we must not — cannot — give up. Simply put, the situation is untenable, as evidenced by the ongoing violence in Israel, Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories. Since the beginning of the outbreak of viole…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2261 (2016) and the establishment of a United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire that is awaited in the next few months in Colombia as part of the peace process under way since 2012.
It has been very unusual, in the …
At the outset, I would like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Ms. Eveline Rooijmans, Humanitarian Policy Advisor at Oxfam; and Ms. Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, for their statements and their commitment. I would also like to thank you…
I should like to convey my gratitude to Ms. Kang for her briefing. The situation that she has just described illustrates, if there were need for it, the scale of the disaster that we have been witnessing for nearly five years now in Syria. This is the greatest tragedy of the century.
France asked t…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2259 (2015). This important resolution lends all the unanimous support
of the Council to the Libyan Political Agreement of 17 December, as did several ministers with their presence in Skhirat or Rome.
We pay tribute to the Libyan negotiators who shouldere…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Assistant Secretary-General Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings and their commitment.
For several months, Yemen has been plunged into a major humanitarian and political crisis. In that context, F…
I thank the Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi for the very thorough briefing he has just made on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) over the past quarter, as well as for his observations.
The proliferation of radiological, biological, chemical …
I thank the three authors of the important resolution 2258 (2015): Jordan, New Zealand and Spain. The resolution represents a genuine step forward, as it seeks to facilitate access for humanitarian agencies across borders and front lines within Syria so as to deliver humanitarian assistance to the S…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing. I also thank the Ambassador of Afghanistan for his first important statement to the Council.
France aligns itself with the statement that will be delivered on behalf of the European Union.
For Afghanistan, 2015 was a yea…
