I would like to thank the United States delegation for introducing today’s resolution 2235 (2015), establishing a Mechanism to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The adoption of the resolution is important for several reasons. First, it enables the Security Council to find some unity…
Ms. Annick Girardin, France’s Minister of State for Development and Francophonie, would have liked to be here to speak on the subject of small island developing States dealing with threats to peace and security, an important issue for France and one particularly close to Ms. Girardin’s heart, since …
I wish to thank Malaysia and the co-authors of the draft resolution and to welcome the Ministers who are honouring us with their presence today.
We deeply deplore the defeat of the draft resolution on the establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute persons responsible for the downing of…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Zealand for coming and to congratulate New Zealand on its presidency of the Council for July. I would also like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing.
In the Middle East, since last summer, and even more since the recent …
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2231 (2015), which marks a historic moment both for international peace and security and for the Security Council. Following 12 years of a nuclear crisis, after many months of intensive months of negotiation, an agreement with Iran was finally reached in Vi…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Elliasson and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Al Hussein, for their briefings.
The General Assembly’s commemoration on 1 July, organized by the Bosnia and Herzegovina in the presence of the Secretary-General and the President of the General Asse…
France deeply regrets Russia’s opposition to the adoption of a draft resolution whose goal was to honour the memory not only of the victims of the genocide in Srebenica, but also that of the innocent victims on all sides during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to recall the Security …
First, I would like to warmly thank Ambassador Dato Ramlan Bin Ibrahim and the entire Malaysian team for all the work accomplished in June. You, Sir, have managed the agenda of a very busy and productive month in New York outstandingly. In particular, I will remember the excellent debate organized o…
I too would like to thank the Prosecutor for presenting her twenty-first report.
On 31 March 2005, the Security Council adopted resolution 1593 (2005), which noted that the situation in the Sudan constituted a threat to international peace and security and referred the situation in Darfur to the In…
I thank you, Mr, President, for organizing this important meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassadors De Aguiar Patriota and Skoog for their illuminating briefings.
Since it was establishd 10 years ago, the peacebuilding architecture has made undeniable progress — on the one hand in the sense o…
I, too, would like to thank the Ambassador of Spain for his briefing on the quarterly activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which established sanctions with regard to the Iranian nuclear programme.
Almost 20 months have passed since the adoptio…
I, too, would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haysom, for his presentation. I also thank the Ambassador of Afghanistan, Mr. Tanin, for his statement, and I associate myself in advance with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the Europea…
I thank the Malaysian presidency and you, Mr. Minister, for organizing this crucial debate, which comes at a particularly busy time, both politically and emotionally, in terms of the United Nations agenda. The challenges identified by the Secretary-General in terms of the protection of children in a…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, as well as the Force Commanders of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization for their briefings and, …
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the Ambassadors of Spain, New Zealand and Lithuania for their briefings and for the leadership of the Committees they respectively chair.
Terrorism remains an extremely present threat, as we are reminded by the all too frequent attacks that are currently taking pla…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Alexander Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), for their briefings.
The latest developments on the ground are worrying. I refer of course to the resumpti…
I thank Presidents Meron and Joensen and Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz for their reports and their very comprehensive briefings. France reiterates its thanks to all the staff of the Tribunals for the work carried out to complete the pending proceedings.
We also welcome the transition that has be…
I thank the Secretary-General, the Chairs of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities, and the Secretary General of INTERPOL for their briefings. The picture is clear. The threat …
I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate, which is today more necessary than ever. I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General for his statement as well as Ms. Pearl and Mr. Deloire for their important testimony, which allows us better to understand the…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for presenting the most recent report of the Secretary- General (S/2015/303) on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Kosovo, Mr. Dačić and Mr. Thaçi, for the…
