At the outset, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Alexander Zouev for his briefing. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting one year after the adoption of resolution 2365 (2017) on an important topic that deserves our attention and mobilization.
Unfortun…
First of all, let me thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto for his very enlightening briefing, especially on peace efforts and the electoral process. I also thank Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings on combating terrorism and …
France thanks the President of the General Assembly for organizing today’s debate and the Secretary-General for his report on the responsibility to protect (A/72/884) and, above all, for his personal commitment to the issue. I would also like to thank the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocid…
On behalf of France, I sincerely thank Prosecutor Bensouda and her team for the important work they have been doing for six years in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). France appreciates the importance that such a mission represents for her and her team, who are …
I thank President Meron and Prosecutor Brammertz for their letters (see S/2018/347 and S/2018/471) and briefings.
Six months after the closure of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and more than two years after the closure of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), …
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Mauro Vieira, Ambassador of Brazil; Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs; and Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for their insightful briefings on the political and secur…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Dačić, and the Ambassador of Kosovo, Ms. Çitaku, for their briefings. Considering the situation described by the Special Representative, I will unde…
Allow me to begin by warmly thanking Kuwait, Peru and the United Kingdom for their efforts in organizing and conducting this mission, which was a particularly important moment for all of us. I also thank Bangladesh and Burma for their hospitality.
The field visits, in particular to the zero line, K…
I thank Ms. Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her report and her briefing.
As we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute this year, France wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the International Criminal Court to the repression of the most ser…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s open debate on a topic that the Council should indeed address and for inviting Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth, and Mr. Graeme Simpson, Director of Interpeace USA. I thank them for their very insightful briefings.
I would …
At the outset, I wish to thank you for having convened this meeting of the Security Council to address the link between hunger and conflict. I wish also to thank Mark Lowcock and David Beasley for their briefings.
The Secretary-General was the first to alert us, in February 2017, as to the tragic h…
I would like to begin by warmly thanking all the speakers, and in particular Ms. Sarabi and Ms. Safi, for their informative briefings. I also thank the Netherlands for taking the initiative to hold this important debate on 8 March, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which is also being ce…
I welcome Mr. Angelino Alfano, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, and congratulate his country on assuming the chairpersonship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) this year. Italy can count on our full support in addressing the prioriti…
I thank Mr. Modibo Touré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, for his clear and precise briefing, which reminds us of just how critical this point is for Guinea-Bissau. I also thank Ambassador Mauro Vieira f…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Ambassador of Peru and Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee for his briefing. On behalf of France, I would like to take this
opportunity to wish him every success for the next two years at the head of this important committee.
We had the opportunity in …
I should like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the Ambassador of Kosovo for their statements.
In the light of the situation described by the Special Representative, I should like to underscore thre…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate, which shows how important you consider the issue of improving the Security Council’s working methods, both in your position as President of the Council for this month and as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Doc…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their particularly insightful briefings on the political, security and humanitarian situation in South Sudan and on the work of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). I would also like…
At the outset, I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jean Arnault, for his briefing, as well as the Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, Mr. Óscar Naranjo, for participating in today’s meeting. I also thank them for the negotiations and the impleme…
I would first like to thank all our briefers, particularly Ms. Wazma Frogh, who embodies the voice of women and civil society that is so essential to building a lasting peace in Afghanistan.
France associates itself with the statement to be delivered later by the observer of the European Union.
I …
