Along with our British, Danish, Greek and Slovenian partners, we called for this Security Council meeting given the considerable urgency of the situation. I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, and the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine Russell, for …
France thanks the United States and Panama for their work as co-penholders, which led to the unanimous adoption of the
The Office has a role to play in supporting the Haitian authorities as they work towards a return to stability and a lasting end to the country’s deep crisis. That support is neede…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg; the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher; and the Chief Executive Officer of Yemen Aid, Ms. Summer Nasser, for their insightful briefings. I also welcome the pr…
Please accept our congratulations, Mr. President, our best wishes and our support for your presidency. My thanks likewise extend to the Permanent Representative of Guyana and her Mission for their presidency last month. I am also grateful to the Assistant-Secretary General,
The overriding priority …
I would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, for his briefing and observations on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Once again, our Council notes the worsening situation, and France would like to reiterate three immediat…
My statement will be very brief.
France thanks all the members of the Council for their participation in the negotiations. The sanctions regime and its group of experts are essential tools to fight against violence and destabilization in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as recalled by …
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and Ms. Shayna Lewis for their briefings. I would also like to thank Mr. Joonkook Hwang, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, for his briefing.
The presentations we have just heard confirm, …
At the outset, I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and our colleague Ambassador Kanu, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone and Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004), concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their briefings.
I w…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for his briefing, and above all, for the action of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) to promote peace and stability …
I thank Guyana for having convened this debate on a painful, but critical theme for the Council. I would like to thank Special Representative Mrs. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter and UNICEF representative Ms. Sheema SenGupta for their briefings. I ask you, Madam President, to thank Sila for her courageo…
I would like to thank the Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, the representative of the European Union, Mr. Stavros Lambrinidis, and our colleague, the Permanent Representative of Slovenia, as Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), for their b…
I would first like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, and the Executive Director of United Nations-Women, Ms. Sima Bahous, for their briefings on the situation in Afghanistan. In t…
At the outset, I thank the Secretary- General for his statement, two days after the statement he had already made alerting us to the seriousness of the situation (see S/PV.9939). I also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Mr. Miroslav Jenča, and the Direc…
We listened attentively to the Secretary-General who forcefully reminded us of the seriousness of the situation, and we thank him. I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Mr. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic E…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, and Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings and for the United Nations efforts to hel…
I thank Guyana for having taken the initiative of this meeting during its presidency of the Security Council — for which I offer my congratulations — a meeting focused on a critical issue, namely the link between peace and sustainable development. I welcome your presence, Mr. Minister for Foreign Af…
At the outset, I thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings on the situation in Syria. I particularly wish to thank Ms. Amneh Khoulani, Executive Director of the Adalaty Centre,…
First of all, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the Director General of the International Agency for Atomic Energy (IAEA) for their briefings on the situation.
Following the strikes carried out last night by Israel against Iran, France has…
France would like to thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing. We also thank her for reporting on the work carried out by the teams of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), who demonstrated their professionalism and whose im…
France thanks Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa for their briefings, which remind us of the ordeal of the civilian population in Gaza.
France will never forget the heinous terrorist attacks of 7 October 2023. The hostages still in Gaza being held by Hamas and other terrorist gro…
