I wish to begin by thanking Mr. Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, for his briefing and particularly for his commitment and that of his team on the ground. I also thank Ambassador Wronecka for her briefing and her work as Chair of the Committee established purs…
I, too, wish to thank Special Representative Tadamichi Yamamoto for his insightful briefing. I also thank Ms. Aisha Khurram, who gave us an opportunity to hear the voice of the youth of Afghanistan, as well as Ambassador Adela Raz of Afghanistan, who, as usual, very eloquently advocated on behalf of…
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your
presidency of the Security Council this month, and to assure you of our support. I also warmly congratulate Ambassador Karen Pierce on the United Kingdom’s excellent presidency last month. And I thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Mr. Rob…
I would first like to thank the members of the Council for their condolences on the tragic loss of French soldiers in Mali.
I am still moved by the poignant testimony of Mr. Kachi, which reminds us of the importance of our collective commitment. I sincerely thank him for his briefing and express my…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Mark Lowcock for his briefing and, in particular, for sharing with us his assessment of the functioning of the cross-border assistance mechanism.
The first point I would like to make is that we must take every possible action to ensure humanitarian access throughout Syria…
I too would like to begin by paying tribute to the men and women police officers and commanders working today in United Nations peacekeeping missions in what are sometimes very difficult security situations. Listening to Mr. Lacroix and the testimonies of our briefers today, we see clearly that it i…
The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a detailed account of the various challenges that Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to face. I should like to return to three of them.
First, more than a year after the general elections of October 2018, the failure to form Governments and oper…
France also welcome’s the unanimous adoption of resolution 2495 (2019). We are pleased that we were able to unite and respond positively to the requests formulated by the Sudanese Prime Minister.
This resolution also lays the strongest possible foundations for the peace process to succeed. Renewing…
I too would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Çitaku, Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, for their statements.
Respectfully, I would like to re…
France thanks South Africa for its efforts in a difficult context and welcomes the Security Council’s unity. This is a victory for the women and peace and security agenda, which will mark its twentieth anniversary next year. France welcomes the fact that resolution 2493 (2019) calls for the full imp…
I, too, would like to thank most warmly the Under-Secretary- General for Peace Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, for his briefing on the significant developments in the Sudan over the past weeks. I also welcome the Ambassador of the Sudan and his delegation, which represents the new face of the S…
As the Permanent Representative of Germany just recalled, the convening of this debate a few days after the remarkable mobilization that we witnessed during the Climate Action Summit highlights very aptly the crucial importance of listening to what young people have to say to us and of including fut…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, for his intervention. I shall comment on three points.
First, on the peace process, the current priority is to form a transitional Government of national unity by 12 November. France welcomes R…
Allow me first to extend France’s condolences to the Afghan people and the families of the victims of the attacks perpetrated on 2 and 5 September in Kabul. France stands in solidarity with the Afghan Government in the fight against terrorism. That is a joint commitment of which we are all particula…
First, like others, I would like to thank Mark Lowcock
and Geir Pedersen for their very detailed and useful briefings, as always. I am particularly pleased to see Mr. Pedersen in the Council restored to full health.
The Syrian tragedy has, for some months, entered into a new phase of the Syrian re…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2485 (2019), illustrating the Security Council’s collective support for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), whose role is essential to preserving peace in a volatile regional context. As it does every year, France worked energeti…
I too would like to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, for her insightful briefing, which provided a comprehensive update on developments in Iraq, as well as on the work of all the teams of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (U…
I too would like to thank the Special Coordinator, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his enlightening briefing, which provided us with a clear and precise outline of the situation and the issues at hand.
First of all, I would like to draw our collective attention to the further deterioration of the situat…
First of all, I would like to warmly thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, and Mr. Smaїl Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, for their important briefings. France welcomes the close coordination between the United Nations and the African…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs for her briefing.
Appeals are regularly made from this organ to preserve and strengthen the security system for which the Security Council is the guarantor. It is a common priority and objec…
