I thank Prosecutor Karim Khan for presenting his twenty-ninth report submitted to the Security Council in accordance with resolution 1970 (2011).
I have four observations to make.
First, it is for good reason that the Security Council unanimously referred the situation in Libya to the Prosecutor o…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Khiari, for his briefing. I also wish to thank and pay tribute to Ms. Sung-Eui Lee and Mr. Ruby Chen and their families. I pay tribute to their courage and their testimony and say to them that, around this table, there are mothers, fathers, …
First of all, I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Grundberg, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, and the Yemen Country Director of the Center for Civilians in Conflict, Ms. Dina El-Mamoun, all of whom shared with us the reality of the situ…
First of all, I thank Mr. Tom Fletcher, Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Ms. Angélica Jácome, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York, for their briefings. France commends the work of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian …
At the outset, I wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari and the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Source Centre, Mr. James Byrne, for their briefings, which are more necessary than ever in the absence of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718…
Let me begin, Mr. President, by wishing you every success in your presidency of the Security Council. I would like to thank High Representative Christian Schmidt for his briefing to the Council. I also want to welcome the presence in the Security Council of Ms. Željka Cvijanović, Chairperson of the …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her statement but first and foremost for her efforts and those of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I thank the Secretary-General of the Danish Re…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for her briefing, which confirms that Russia continues to carry out military operations against Ukraine in defiance of international humanitarian law.
The presentation she has just given us bears witness to the humanitarian disaster caused by the war …
I thank the Special Envoy, Mr. Pedersen, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Fletcher, for their particularly information-rich briefings. I also thank Ms. Seif for her enlightening testimony and also for years of resistance to oppression.
In December 2024, after decades of…
I would like to thank the Secretary- General and Ms. Russo for their very enlightening presentations. I would also like to thank Denmark for organizing this open debate on an essential topic during its presidency.
We all know that, in these times of polarization, doubt and even questioning of the U…
France thanks the Special Coordinator ad interim for her briefing. The picture is bleak: almost 10 years after the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016), a landmark resolution in our view, almost everything has deteriorated, and the region is experiencing a seemingly endless catastrophe.
Yesterday and…
First of all, I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for his briefing and Mr. Eli Sharabi for his poignant testimony.
In my previous post in Geneva, I had the sad privilege of often meeting the families and loved ones of the hostages to express France’s solidarity and resolve to help…
I thank you, Madam President, for your words of welcome. I will endeavour to live up to the bar set by my predecessor, Mr. Nicolas De Rivière, who told me how greatly he valued the cooperative working relations with all members of the Council.
France wishes to thank the Emergency Relief Coordinator…
I would first like to thank the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine Russell, and the Secretary General of Médecins sans frontières, Mr. Christopher Lockyear, for their briefings. I would also like to acknowledge the presence among us of Lord Ray Collins of Highbury and the Permanent Represen…
I must say that we have had a highly useful debate, highlighting all areas of cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union, and that almost every — all except one — Council member said basically the same thing. We heard a lot of useful contributions from non-European Member States r…
At the outset, I would like to thank the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Kaja Kallas, for her statement.
I would like to make three points.
First of all, the European Union is striving with the United Nations for law to prevail over force. The…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, and Ms. Azadah Raz Mohammad for their briefings.
The Taliban regime has placed gender-based persecution and violence against women at the heart of its political identity. Afghan women and girls have been denied their …
I would like to thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, for her briefing, and I will make three points.
First of all, since December 2024, Syria has entered a historic transition phase. France supports a transition process that will make it possible to build a f…
I would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General; Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher; and Ms. Nesmah
The Security Council has denounced with one voice the systematic Houthi violations of international humanitarian law, th…
First of all, Madam President, I congratulate you on your presidency in the month of March and thank the United Kingdom for its work, which made it possible to achieve the Council’s unanimous renewal of the sanctions regime against Al-Shabaab.
The adoption of resolution2776 (2025) attests to the su…
