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…
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…
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…
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 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 thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting at a crucial point in the Ebola epidemic. I thank the briefers, Mr. David Nabarro, Mr. Anthony Banbury and Mr. Thomas Mauget, as well as the Ambassadors of Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone. Through
them, France wishes to pay tribute to th…
Let me begin by thanking Australia for its commitment to a subject that is one of the most pressing threats to international peace and security today. This was an issue raised by the State visit just carried out by President Hollande to Australia.
The horrific murders of the young American humanita…
I thank Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen for his briefing, and Ms. Tagliavini and Mr. Apakan for theirs.
Almost a year ago, Ukraine entered into a period of unprecedented transformation after years of administrative inefficiencies and political blockage. This transformation came from deep within Uk…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing.
A week ago, we convened in the Chamber (see S/PV.7281) to note just how threatened the two-State solution was as a result of the war of July and August, which led to a critical humanitarian situation in Gaza, which was largely destro…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. I would also like to warmly thank for their briefings the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet; the Special Rapporteur on the human r…
I would like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco and Mr. Šimonović for their briefings, and my British colleague for initiating this meeting.
The human rights situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, as the sixth report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights based o…
I would like to warmly thank Argentina for organizing this debate on an amibitious set of topics, and the two speakers — Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Ms. Kimberly Prost, Ombudsperson of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, for his statement. I associate myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union. I will talk briefly about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the situation in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and the crisis in Libya.
The two-State soluti…
I thank the Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed, and the Force Commanders of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Cong…
Resolution 2177 (2014), which we have just adopted, describes the Ebola epidemic as a threat to international peace and security. This is the first time in history that the Security Council has defined a health crisis in that manner.
On the one hand, the epidemic represents an international threat …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her briefing and her work.
I also associate myself with the statements to be made by the observer of the European Union and by the representative of Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti.
The…
Thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate. I also thank you for your kind words of welcome. It is an immense honour to represent France in this body and to begin with a debate on such a crucial subject. I would also like to thank the other speakers for their analysis and their poignant, …
