The Great Lakes region has been the subject of a great deal of attention on the part of the Security Council for many years. The commitment of the United Nations demonstrates the importance attached to stability in that region at the heart of Africa. With over a third
of United Nations peacekeepers…
Allow me to begin by conveying my heartfelt gratitude to the Malian, Senegalese and Guinea-Bissau authorities for their warm welcome, and to the Secretariat, in particular the secretariat of the Council, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Sta…
France voted in favour of resolution 2272 (2016), prepared by the United States Mission, a resolution that strengthens the fight against sexual abuse in peacekeeping operations.
We believe that the fight against sexual abuse is an absolute imperative, both moral and political, and deserves the Coun…
(spoke in French): Allow me to begin by thanking Venezuela for its presidency during the month of February and by wishing every success to the presidency of Angola. I also thank the United States for having presented resolution 2270 (2016), which we have just adopted unanimously.
In carrying out it…
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…
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 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 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…
At the outset, allow me to warmly thank our briefers, whose presentations and disturbing testimonies embody the Council’s profound interest in addressing the issue of human trafficking in situations of conflict. The poignant testimony of Ms. Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who herself was a victim of atroci…
I thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her twenty-second report and her briefing. Ms. Bensouda reminds us again, more than 10 years after the adoption of resolution 1593 (2005), that civilians in Darfur remain the targets of violence, in particular at t…
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on his vision of the future of United Nations peacekeeping operations, a vision that we fully share. France fully shares the conceptual framework proposed by the Secretary- General in his report on the future of United Nations peace operations (S/2015/6…
