I too thank Nicholas Haysom and Wafaa Saeed for their briefings and Viet Nam for its work at the helm of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan over the past two years.
I will focus on three points.
We regret that the implementation of the Revitalized A…
I would also like to thank Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and for his concerted action as the Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). I would like to underscore three points.
First, it is essential to supp…
France voted in favour of resolution 2608 (2021), as it allows for the pursuit against piracy off the coast of Somalia. That no attacks have taken place in more than four
years is the result of a long-term collective endeavour, but its outcome remains uncertain.
Nonetheless, France is concerned by…
I join others in thanking the Chairs of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 154…
We would also like to take this opportunity to welcome your presence among us today, Sir, and commend Mexico for making a priority the prevention of trafficking in small arms and light weapons, which indeed fuels armed conflicts and undermines peacebuilding efforts.
The Security Council has played …
I, too, wish to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Mr. Parfait Onanga- Anyanga and President Mbeki for their briefings. I also welcome the presence among us of the representatives of the Sudan and of South Sudan.
I wish to emphasize three points.
First, the attacks targeting United Nations Interim Sec…
I, too, wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for his briefing. I also welcome the participation of the President of Kosovo and of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia.
The resolution of the dispute between Belgrade and Pristina is a European security issue; recen…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and Ms. Peñaranda and Ms. Soto for their testimonies and their daily action in their communities. I also welcome the Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia.
Colombia is about to celebrate the fifth ann…
I too would like to thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Acting Assistant Secretary-General Rajasingham for their briefings, as well as Ms. Al-Deen for her testimony and proposals.
The security situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate. In Ma’rib and Shabwa, deadly clashes persist and are even inten…
I would like to thank Kenya for organizing this meeting and thank the briefers for their statements.
The uncontrolled spread and the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons is a threat to international peace and security. It fuels conflicts, crime and terrorism. We have all paid the pri…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process for his briefing and to welcome his continued efforts in recent months.
France is also very concerned by the severe tensions in Gaza. We call on all parties to exercise restraint to ensure that there is no new spi…
I too thank Hervé Lecoq for his briefing. We also welcome the presence of the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina among us today.
The biannual meetings of the Security Council show that, while Bosnia and Herzegovina has made progress in its stabilization over the past 25 years, the situation…
I, too, should like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and Mr. Mohandis for the very enlightening details he brought to our attention. I also welcome the presence of the representative of South Sudan, to whom we will soon be listening very closely.
I wish …
I too would like to thank Special Representative François Fall for his always very substantial briefing.
I would like to return to three points. First of all, let me stress the importance of regional cooperation for the stability of Central Africa. We welcome United Nations cooperation with the Eco…
I too want to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her briefing and her report.
As a key actor in the multilateral system and a permanent court of universal scope, the International Criminal Court requires the full cooperation of us all. More than ever, it must be able to successfully carry out its assign…
I, too, would like to start by thanking President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their presentation of the fifteenth report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (S/2019/888, annexes I and II). I wish to assure them of my delegation’s full support as the Mechanism’s firs…
I join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing, and I welcome the presence among us of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, Mr. Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, to whom we wish every success in fulfilling his new responsibilities.
The relationship between the United…
France also welcomes the Council’s adoption of resolution 2475 (2019) today. It constitutes a major step forward, as it is the first time the Security Council has dedicated a resolution specifically to the rights of persons with disabilities in the framework of its agenda on the protection of civili…
I, too, want to thank the Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for presenting her twenty-ninth report on developments in the Darfur investigation. On behalf of my country, I also want to commend the vital work done by the Prosecutor and her teams under resolution 1593 (2005) for almost 14 years now. It i…
The situation at the heart of resolution 73/257, which the General Assembly just adopted, relates to the non-fulfilment of a decision of the International Court of Justice in a case between Mexico and the United States. In that regard, France wishes to reaffirm its adherence to the obligation incumb…
