I congratulate you, Mr. President, on the start of your presidency and commend the Permanent Representative of Panama for his presidency last month.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany and Chair of…
Mr. President, Your Excellency Mr. Mohammad Ishaq Dar, France welcomes Pakistan’s initiative of convening this meeting. I would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Mr. Yousef Al-Dobeay, Assistant Secretary-General for Political …
I would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General; Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher; and Ms. Nesmah
The Security Council has denounced with one voice the systematic Houthi violations of international humanitarian law, th…
I would like to thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Gherman for their briefings.
Terrorism remains one of the gravest threats to international peace and security. Da’esh, Al-Qaida and their affiliates represent the most acute terrorist threat. They continue to regroup and to expand their presence across sev…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abdou Abarry and Ms. Nlate for their briefings.
France welcomes the three-year renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). It also welcomes the adoption on 1 November of presidential s…
I thank Ms. Brands Kehris, Mr. Paulsen and Ms. Msuya for their briefings.
The Security Council must respond to the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where the situation continues to deteriorate. The most recent report of the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Clas…
I would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Ms. Joyce Msuya and Ms. Jumaan for their briefings. I would also like to welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of Yemen.
France deplores the fact that the Iranian-backed Houthis continue to destabilize the Red Sea with their attacks …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his briefing, and I also thank Ms. Beatriz Helena Quintero García. I welcome the presence among us of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Murillo, and the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Cristo.
The full impl…
We thank the representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for their briefings.
The challenges posed by trafficking in persons off the Libyan coast are enormous. France, alongside its European Union …
I would like to thank the Special Representative for his statement.
The past six months have been marked by the many ongoing challenges in West Africa and the Sahel, first and foremost, the dominant role played by terrorism. France is particularly concerned about the incessant attacks, which affect…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. María Isabel Salvador, for her briefing, and I welcome the presence of the Prime Minister of Haiti.
France welcomes the arrival in Port-au-Prince of the first contingent of Kenyan police officers. That is an initial step in the deplo…
France congratulates the United Kingdom on having led the negotiations and welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the United Nations Support Office in Somalia until 12 August.
A few months from ATMIS’s departure, France would like to under…
I wish to thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing.
We are meeting once again to note the lack of real progress towards the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons programme. It has been more than 10 years since the Syrian Arab Republic joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, yet …
I thank the Special Representative for his briefing. I also thank the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States.
I welcome the efforts made by the Special Representative and the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to build peace in Central…
By way of preliminary remarks, France notes that the modality of today’s meeting is unusual. Russia has convened an emergency meeting and has painted a picture of a Bosnia and Herzegovina on the brink of collapse. France does not share that dramatic assessment of the situation, even if we find the a…
I would like to thank Malta for assuming the chairpersonship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) during this difficult period for the organization.
As we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act next year, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukrain…
France regrets Russia and China’s exercise of their right to veto the draft resolution submitted by the United States on 22 March (S/2024/239). The situation in Gaza requires that the Security Council be able to clearly state its demands on every aspect of the crisis, humanitarian, security and poli…
First of all, I would like to thank Ecuador for its tireless work in chairing the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004).
Resolution 1540 (2004) is an essential part of our non-proliferation architecture. It remains crucial to preventing the risk of non-State actors gaining access…
I would like to respond to a few points just made by the representative of the Russian Federation. It was said that France had set a negative precedent. I believe that that is absolutely not the case, as the Russian Federation has already requested procedural votes concerning the holding of Security…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements made on
behalf of the European Union and by the representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States (see A/77/ PV.97), and would like to make the following remarks in its national capacity.
Th…
