First, I should like to thank you, Sir, for organizing this very timely meeting. During the course of 2017, the Council has repeatedly reaffirmed the value of peacekeeping operations as one of the most essential tools of the United Nations for peace and international security. By emphasizing the nee…
I thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her report and her detailed briefing to the Council, and reiterate France’s full support and trust in the fulfilment of her mandate.
On 31 March 2005, the Council adopted resolution 1593 (2005). This decision had three clear goals: first, to promote the fight against…
I would like to thank Presidents Agius and Meron and Prosecutor Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings. I also welcome the presence here today of the President of the Republic of Croatia and the Minister of Justice of Serbia.
At the time when, through its adoption on 25 May 1993 of resolution …
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her very informative briefing on the situation in South Sudan, the work of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the importance of the Security Council’s role and support.
The initiative undertaken in July to hold a…
At the outset, allow me to warmly thank Italy for having convened today’s debate on an extremely topical issue that touches all of our consciences. We also congratulate you, Mr. President, on your tireless efforts
that allowed us to unanimously adopt resolution 2388 (2017). France also thanks the S…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2385 (2017), which renews the sanctions regime for Somalia and Eritrea, as well as the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea associated with it.
With respect to Somalia, sanctions, specifically the arms embargo, remain an important and con…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the Ambassador of Kosovo for their briefings.
France welcomed Kosovo’s formation of a new Government on 9 September in the wake of the legislativ…
I thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her fourteenth report and for her briefing this morning. I would also like to reaffirm France’s support for the Prosecutor, as well as for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a whole, in the implementation of resolution 1970 (2011), which referred the situation …
I thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina for his briefing. More than 20 years after a deadly conflict, the Dayton Peace Agreement continues to be the cornerstone of institutional stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2384 (2017) serves to hi…
I would first like to thank Italy for organizing this meeting on the role of the police in peacekeeping operations, which has enabled us to adopt resolution 2382 (2017), the second Security Council resolution pertaining to the police, three years after resolution 2185 (2014). I would also like to th…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. David Shearer, as well as the Chair of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, President Festus Mogae, for their thorough briefings. Faced…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his briefing and, through him, to pay tribute again to United Nations personnel working in difficult conditions in Afghanistan. I also warmly welcome the presence of Mr. Salahuddin Rabba…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary General Jeffrey Feltman and Ms. Fatima Shehu Imam, Director of the Network of Civil Society Organizations in Borno state, for their briefings.
France is encouraged by the recent progress that has been made in the fight against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin …
I would first like to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, and you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting at a very timely moment, just as the Security Council has returned from its annual meeting in Addis Ababa with the African Union …
We welcome the unanimous renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year. As penholder, as it does every year, France assumed its responsibility and tried to keep the unity of the Security Council on renewing UNIFIL’s
mandate. It being necessary to pr…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s very timely debate. I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal and Mr. Youssef Mahmoud for their analyses, which enable us to better understand this particularly complicated issue.
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I thank the President for organizing today’s meeting and for his briefing as Chair on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) — the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Committee — in recent months.
Today’s meeting cannot be a meeting li…
I thank Mr. Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his briefing and for his work as Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I would also like to thank Mr. Dačić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ambassador Çitaku of Kosovo for the…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his very illuminating briefing.
I would like to begin my statement by reiterating France’s full solidarity with Burkina Faso in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Ouagadougou, which led to the deaths of 18 people. Our condolences go…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her briefing and initiative to lead the joint United Nations-African Union solidarity mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria and for being personally involved in combating violence against women. It is a dail…
