France voted in favour of resolution 2197 (2015), prepared by the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom, which renews the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). We believe that the role of UNFICYP is crucial. By preventing a resumption of fighting and by contributing…
I thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing. We would have all wished to see 2015 begin under better auspices for Ukraine and its stability. The year has barely started, and twice in less than a week the situation on the ground has forced us to meet here.
The spiral of chaos, which started two weeks ago a…
I would start by thanking Mr. Feltman for his briefing. We have heeded his warning regarding the deterioration of the security situation in Donbas over the past few days. Fighting has resumed with an intensity that we had not seen in Ukraine for several months, especially around what remains of the …
I would like to thank Chile for initiating today’s debate and putting the issue of inclusive development, and the links between development and peace and security, on the Security Council’s agenda. It is a crucial issue for all of us, and one that has not been discussed in the
Council since 2011 (s…
This public debate is the first meeting of this nature of the Security Council since the terrorist attacks perpetrated in France last week. Allow me to say a few words on the subject.
On behalf of France, I would like say how overwhelmed and strengthened we were by the massive support that was show…
I would like at the outset to thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson for his briefing, as well as Ambassador Patriota, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). I would also like to thank the Chilean presidency of the Security Council for taking the initiative to convene this important and w…
Since the peace negotiations ended in April, the situation has deteriorated and we are dealing with two threats. On the one hand, the essential two-State solution is on its way to becoming a mirage. The ongoing illegal settlements undermine the viability of a Palestinian State on the ground. In Isra…
I would like to thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Mr. Šimonović for their briefings. What they have described for us today backs up the information contained in the report of the commission of inquiry (S/2014/276, annex), chaired by Mr. Kirby.
The work the commission of inquiry has done is not only…
I would first like to thank Ambassador Cherif and the Chadian team for the superb work they have done in December. It is still a little early to uncork the champagne because our programme has filled up beyond the symbolic date set by this wrap-up debate, but we know that we are in good hands in deal…
I thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Téte António for their briefings. I would also welcome Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chad, for his initiative in convening today’s open debate and for presiding over it. I thank him warmly and congratulate him more broadly for Chad’s exc…
I too would like to begin by thanking Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Yuri Fedotov, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for their presentations. I also thank the Ambassador Tanin of Afghanistan for the statemen…
First, I would like to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his briefing and forf the unstinting work he accomplished with his team over the past two years at the head of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). The dynamism, vigour and high professionalism were th…
Allow me to begin this morning by firmly condemning, as was done this morning by the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, the appalling attack against a school in Peshawar. We express our solidarity and convey our condolences to the Pakistani authorities and to the families of the vi…
I thank the Prosecutor for her twentieth report and for her briefing.
Prosecutor Bensouda reminds us yet again that, nearly 10 years after the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1593 (2005), the civilian population of Darfur remains the target of both the Government and armed militias, and t…
I should like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Sahel for her briefing and to reiterate France’s full support for her mission.
The stabilization of Mali is of crucial importance for the Sahel. After having mobilized the attention and energy of the Security Council for two…
I would like to thank President Meron, President Joensen and Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz for their briefings. France reiterates its thanks to all the staff of the Tribunals for their work to carry out the procedures to a successful end. We note the importance of the mobilization of all parties …
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for having convened this important meeting. France fully aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union. Nevertheless, I would like to underscore three points.
First, the report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts…
I want to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing and the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr. Vučić, and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Mr. Thaçi, for their statements.
Today we are reviewing the events of 2014, the year of the implementation of the hi…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, and your entire team for all the work done in November. The programme was extremely tightly packed, which sometimes gave the impression of running the New York marathon here too in the Council, but at a pace not quite as fast as the sprinters. You, Sir…
I would like to begin by thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and the Secretary General of INTERPOL for their very specific and useful briefings. I also want to thank you, Mr. President, and Australia
for your commitment to this issue and for organizing today’s debate. It allows …
