The Council met on Monday to discuss the situation in Haiti (see S/PV.9153). France is extremely concerned about the situation on the ground, in particular the suffering of the local population. France stands with the Haitian people and will continue to mobilize support for Haiti. That is why France…
I too would first like to thank Gabon for
organizing this open debate. I welcome its commitment to women’s rights and to the Security Council’s women and peace and security agenda. I thank the Deputy Secretary-General and our other briefers for their valuable insights, and I particularly commend th…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing, and I welcome the presence among us of the Foreign Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo.
The incidents that took place in northern Kosovo on 31 July are worrying and remind us that there is no other way forward for either Serbi…
I thank Special Representative La Lime for her briefing. I welcome the presence at this meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Haiti and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, as well as of the Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations and the …
I in turn would like to thank the Special Representative for her briefing. I would also like to welcome the Permanent Representative of Iraq to this meeting today
France strongly condemns the massive air strikes claimed by Iran in the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, which indiscriminately s…
I thank Mr. Wennesland and the Commissioner- General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for their very comprehensive briefings. I also welcome Mr. Levy’s participation in today’s meeting.
The immediate priority is ensuring that the ceasefir…
I thank the Secretary-General and Ms. DiCarlo for their briefings, and I would also like to welcome the address by President Zelenskyy this morning.
For exactly six months, Ukrainians have courageously resisted the war of aggression launched by Russia, with its horrific toll of mass suffering and a…
I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
France has been deeply concerned since the beginning of this war about the threat that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine poses to the safety and security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities. Russia has forcibly seized the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant…
I thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Ms. Ghada Mudawi for their briefings.
France welcomed the renewal of the truce in Yemen on 2 August, for a period of two months. That important step should help alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people, and the extension of the truce should serve to commit all the…
I would like to thank the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his briefing.
France is very concerned about the serious threat to the safety and security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities. The Zaporizhzhya plant, the largest in Europe, was forcibly seized by Russia la…
I too would like to thank all the briefers today for their extremely comprehensive presentations. For my part, I would like to emphasize three points.
Only national capacity-building, supported by solid, long-term training, can achieve lasting results and create the conditions necessary for a withd…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this emergency meeting at the request of multiple members of the Security Council, including France. I would also like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his briefing and all his efforts in support of de-escalation and to assure him of our full s…
I would like to thank the representatives of Egypt and Bangladesh for their respective statements and commend the remarkable work that has been done under the leadership of Egypt and Bangladesh at the head of the Peacebuilding Commission in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
I would like to focus on thre…
I wish to begin by welcoming the presence among us of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, and I also wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing.
France emphatically condemns the indiscriminate strike carried out on 20 July, resulting in nine dead and so…
I thank Ms. Lynn Hastings, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for her briefing.
France continues to support a two-State solution with Jerusalem as the capital of both States, and is determined to work for its implementation, as set out under international law, the relevan…
I thank all of our briefers today for their presentations. On behalf of France, I too would like to join others in expressing our condolences to and solidarity with the families of the victims of the violent earthquake that struck south-eastern Afghanistan yesterday and left hundreds dead or injured…
First of all, I too would like to thank Ms. Alice Nderitu, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, as well as Ms. Liubov Tsybulska and Mr. Jared Cohen, for their very insightful briefings.
Regrettably, hate speech and incitement to violence are nothing new. They have fuelled many conflic…
I thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Martin Griffiths and Mr. Iyad Agha for their briefings.
After 11 years of conflict, humanitarian needs are at an all-time high. In the north-west, the number of people in need of assistance has reached 4.1 million, an increase of more than 20 per cent since last y…
At the outset, I wish to join others in thanking Special Representative La Lime for her briefing. I would also like to thank Mr. Descardes for his briefing. I welcome the presence today of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Religion of Haiti.
As we just heard, there is an emergency in Haiti. The …
I thank the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles. His presence is proof of the European Union’s unwavering commitment to the United Nations.
The European Union and its member States are mobilizing alongside the United Nations…
