I thank the Director General for his briefing and welcome him to this meeting.
Only a week ago, the electrical supply to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was once again cut off for several hours for the seventh time since Russia’s aggression began. For the seventh time, we have come close to a …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General
Rosemary DiCarlo, Commissioner Bankole Adeoye and Ms. Bitania Tadesse for their briefings.
On Africa Day, on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, I am delighted that we are meeting again to discuss African peace operations following th…
I thank Special Representative for the Secretary-General Volker Perthes, African Union Commissioner Bankole Adeoye and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Workneh Gebeyehu. I will focus on five points.
The situation has continued to deteriorate since 15 Apri…
I too would like to thank the Special Representative for her extremely comprehensive briefing and also thank Ms. Latif for her briefing. I welcome the presence of the representative of Iraq in the Chamber today.
I have three messages today. First of all, France welcomes the positive role played by …
I thank High Representative Christian Schmidt for his briefing and welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mrs. Željka Cvijanović, Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since our last meeting, in November (see S/PV.9179), we have welcomed the swift formation of a new executive …
I too join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and Special Envoy Hanna Tetteh for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of the Permanent Representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan at today’s meeting. I would like to emphasize four points.
First, the Abyei Area has o…
Allow me to join my colleagues in congratulating Switzerland on its historic assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and wishing it every success. It goes without saying Mr. President, that you can count on France’s full support in that regard. I thank the briefers for their very inform…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, for her briefing.
Today’s meeting takes place in the context of significant progress made towards the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, and we welcome this, even if I must say that the tone this mo…
On behalf of France, I too would like to thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador for her briefing and wish her every success in her crucial mission. I also thank Ms. Ghada Waly for her briefing and would like to acknowledge the presence at today’s meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and th…
I thank the Secretary-General, Special Representative Volker Perthes, the representative of the African Union and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. I would like to underscore five points.
First, the situation on the ground is desperate. Since 15 April the clashes have result…
In addition to the statement made by the observer of the European Union on behalf of its
member States, I would like to add several remarks in my national capacity.
I thank Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and …
I join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, and the President of the Comunes party f…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolutions 2678 (2023) and 2679 (2023)), which sends an unambiguous signal of the Security Council’s support for the mandate and work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I would like to thank the United Arab Emirates and Japan f…
I join my colleagues in expressing my condolences to Mozambique and Malawi following the cyclone that hit their countries. I would like to thank Hans Grundberg and Joyce Msuya for their briefings and I also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the representative of Yemen. I would like to …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Roza Otunbayeva and Ms. Zubaida Akbar for their very informative briefings. I would like to highlight two points.
As we are celebrating International Women’s Day today, I would like to emphasize how vital it is to address this issue. The situa…
I would like to join my colleagues in congratulating Malta on its successful presidency in February and in wishing you, Sir, every success in your presidency this month. You can count on our full support. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, and Mr. Tareq…
I thank the Special Representative for his briefing and welcome the presence here of the Libyan Permanent Representative.
Libya and its people deserve better than the impasse to which their political class has condemned them. They deserve better than a country where foreign forces, mercenaries and …
I join the rest of my colleagues in congratulating the delegation of Japan for a very successful and professional presidency of the Security Council for the month of January and in wishing you, Madam President, every success during your presidency this month. You can count on our full support.
I th…
I thank Special Representative El-Ghassim Wane and Ms. Aminata Cheick Dicko for their briefings. I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali.
The international community must pay the necessary attention to the situation in Mali and the Sahel region. The report of the Secretary-General (S/202…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed for her briefing. I also thank the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and the President of the Network on Peace and Security for Women in the ECOWAS Region for their briefings.
I thank Japan for organizing today’s debate, which raises the extremely…
