I wish to take this opportunity to convey the gravity of the occasion today as we have just adopted resolution 2303 (2016), on Burundi. After intense negotiations, today the Security Council has taken an important decision that marks a potentially decisive step on the path to peace in Burundi. I wis…
The Security Council has just adopted resolution 2301 (2016), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in
the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). We welcome the fact that, by adopting the resolution unanimously, the Council has sent a united m…
Last February, the adoption of the cessation of hostilities agreement provided a spark of hope for a reduction in violence that would open the way to an emergence from the crisis and to the negotiation of a political transition in Syria. Two months later, at the end of April, the regime, supported b…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2298 (2016),
drafted by the Mission of the United Kingdom, which we thank. It was the culmination of work conducted in close cooperation with the Libyan authorities and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. It also represents an importa…
By way of thanking you, Mr. President, allow me point out Japan’s very welcome contribution to the methods of work of the Security Council, which reflects, Sir, your rigour and professionalism. As suggested in your thought- provoking concept note (S/2016/585), I shall focus on a few points.
My firs…
I thank Jeffrey Feltman, the Permanent Representative of Spain and the head of the Delegation of the European Union for their briefings.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed in Vienna and resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed it, are a year old. At the time of their adoption, we paid trib…
France has for several months noted a trend that, unfortunately, has been increasingly confirmed. The status quo does not exist. It is but an illusion cloaking a daily backslide that we cannot accept. Given the humanitarian consequences of the situation on Palestinian and Israeli
civilians, we must…
I should like at the outset to thank and warmly congratulate Ambassador Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta and the entire Egyptian team for all of their work this month. With great professionalism, they led us through a month that was very busy in every way, particularly with meetings with regional organizati…
I would like to thank the various briefers for their introductory statements, which were very enlightening. I would also like to thank Egyptian presidency of the Security Council for organizing this important debate.
The Security Council has just returned from Somalia. The operation deployed there …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tanin, for his very comprehensive briefing on the situation, and assure him yet again of our full support in the exercise of his mandate. I also thank the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the A…
Allow me to start by thanking Egypt for having undertaken this initiative of organizing this very important debate. I would also like to thank all the briefers for their extremely enlightening presentations. Inviting the Secretary-General of Al Azhar Islamic Research Academy and the Vice-President a…
I thank the Egyptian presidency of the Security Council for bringing us together today for this public debate on the situation in Syria, and more specifically in Aleppo. France took the initiative with the United Kingdom to call for this meeting. I also thank Mr. Feltman and Mr. O’Brien for their br…
I 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 briefings,
which were as moving as they were powerful and inspiring to us to act on our…
I would first like to applaud the persistent efforts of the United States, which worked tirelessly to ensure that resolution 2285 (2016), which we just adopted, represented a response adequate to the difficulties we have witnessed in the past few weeks in relations between Morocco and the Secretary-…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, the Special Representative in Ukraine of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for their briefing…
It is very rare for the Security Council to encounter a situation in which, seeing a return to peace and stability, it can decide that its efforts have achieved their goals. That is the case today with Côte d’Ivoire, with regard to which the Council has just taken two major decisions. On the one han…
First, let me thank you, Mr. President, for having taking the initiative to convene this important debate on a matter of great concern for France. I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun for his very instructive briefing.
France also associates itself with the statement to be m…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his commitment.
The Oslo Accords, signed in 1994, at a time of great hope, made the establishment of a Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel the key to the resolution of that histor…
Before we proceed to the voting, I would like to tell you how pleased I am, Mr. President, that we are meeting now to adopt the draft resolution on Burundi contained in document S/2016/301, thus marking the launch of the Chinese presidency of the Security Council, a presidency to which I extend my m…
Through you, Madam President, France would like warmly to thank the delegation of Angola for organizing this open debate, which allows the Security Council, in the context of its work on the prevention and resolution of conflicts, to continue to add value to and to promote the crucial role of women …
