It is a pleasure to welcome Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga to the table here in the Security Council in his new capacity as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa. I wish him every success in his mission to support efforts towards peace in a context of profound change in the regio…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2468 (2019), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and supports the Personal Envoy of the Secretary- General for Western Sahara. My delegation thanks the American penholder for its in-depth consult…
At the outset, I should like to join previous speakers in expressing France’s heartfelt condolences to the Government and the people of Sri Lanka following the horrific terrorist attacks carried out on Easter Sunday. We express our sympathy and compassion for the victims of those barbaric acts, as w…
The Sudan is going through a phase of profound change. Therefore, before addressing the issue of the prospects for the withdrawal of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), I would like to return to the political situation in Khartoum and its consequences for Darfur.
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I would first like to congratulate you, Sir, on the start of Germany’s presidency, following that of France and linked to it in a twin relationship that illustrates the special partnership between our two countries, which have put together a shared programme and spirit for these two months aimed at …
I should like to warmly thank Ms. Bintou Keita for her important and enlightening briefing. Her joint mission to Darfur with Assistant Secretaries-General Fernández-Taranco and Wahba is an initiative that I commend. It is a good practice, in conjunction with efforts to ensure genuinely integrated Un…
I join others in thanking Special Representative Zahir Tanin for his clear and precise briefing, and I also thank Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Çitaku, the Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, for their statements. I would like to re…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the tragic situation of the Venezuelan people.
Indeed, for nearly three years, Venezuela has been plunged into an unprecedented crisis — with a depleted economy, a population deprived of basic necessities and the tyr…
I commend the Dominican presidency for organizing this open debate. Your country, Mr. President, is on the front lines of tackling climate change and you have rightly made that issue a priority of your presidency. I also thank our briefers for the excellent quality of their statements. The mobilizat…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) for his briefing, which, as always, was very enlightening.
UNOWAS is a valuable tool that enables the United Nations to play a role not only in conflict preventio…
I thank Mr. Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Vieira, Chair of the Guinea- Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
France welcomes the positive developments that have taken place in recent months in Guinea-Bissau, particul…
At the outset, I would like to thank Côte d’Ivoire for having made the Sahel a priority of its Security Council presidency. We strongly support that choice because we are convinced that the challenges facing the Sahel region call for an ambitious and coordinated response by the international communi…
I express my gratitude to Mr. Fedotov for his enlightening briefing on drug trafficking in West Africa and the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I also wish to thank Côte d’Ivoire through you, Mr. President, for having put this topic on the Council’s agenda. Like you, Sir…
At the outset, I wish to express our gratitude to the three briefers for their enlightening briefings and for their ongoing commitment to peace in South Sudan.
I would like to focus on three main points: the peace process, the humanitarian situation and the Regional Protection Force of the United N…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his very useful briefing, in particular on peace efforts and the electoral process. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for his briefing on the f…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Louncény Fall, for his briefing and, in particular, for his efforts at the helm of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa
(UNOCA). France shares his overall analysis of the situation in Centr…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Ms. Helen Meagher La Lime, for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and the work of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH).
We are now approaching the transition period at the e…
In view of the commitment of the French and German authorities to resolving the crisis in Ukraine within the framework of the Normandy format, this statement is made on behalf of France and Germany.
The maritime incidents that occurred yesterday are serious and cause us great concern. As we have ju…
France congratulates Ambassadors Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates, and Christian Braun, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg, on their appointment as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. We know that we can count on th…
I would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Mr. Smaïl Chergui and Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for their very enlightening briefings. I would like to mention three major issues of concern for France.
First, the difficult situation and the suffering of women in South Sudan, who remain marginalized.…
