I thank Minister Gerapetritis, for convening this open debate during your presidency of the Security Council, the importance of which everyone recognizes. I would also like to thank Mr. Fletcher, Ms. Spoljaric Egger, Ms. Bahous and Ms. Soeripto for their briefings.
From their briefings, as well as …
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Khiari, for his briefing. I also wish to thank and pay tribute to Ms. Sung-Eui Lee and Mr. Ruby Chen and their families. I pay tribute to their courage and their testimony and say to them that, around this table, there are mothers, fathers, …
First of all, I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Grundberg, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, and the Yemen Country Director of the Center for Civilians in Conflict, Ms. Dina El-Mamoun, all of whom shared with us the reality of the situ…
First of all, I thank Mr. Tom Fletcher, Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Ms. Angélica Jácome, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York, for their briefings. France commends the work of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian …
At the outset, I wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari and the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Source Centre, Mr. James Byrne, for their briefings, which are more necessary than ever in the absence of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her statement but first and foremost for her efforts and those of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I thank the Secretary-General of the Danish Re…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for her briefing, which confirms that Russia continues to carry out military operations against Ukraine in defiance of international humanitarian law.
The presentation she has just given us bears witness to the humanitarian disaster caused by the war …
I thank the Special Envoy, Mr. Pedersen, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Fletcher, for their particularly information-rich briefings. I also thank Ms. Seif for her enlightening testimony and also for years of resistance to oppression.
In December 2024, after decades of…
I would like to thank the Secretary- General and Ms. Russo for their very enlightening presentations. I would also like to thank Denmark for organizing this open debate on an essential topic during its presidency.
We all know that, in these times of polarization, doubt and even questioning of the U…
France thanks the Special Coordinator ad interim for her briefing. The picture is bleak: almost 10 years after the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016), a landmark resolution in our view, almost everything has deteriorated, and the region is experiencing a seemingly endless catastrophe.
Yesterday and…
First of all, I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for his briefing and Mr. Eli Sharabi for his poignant testimony.
In my previous post in Geneva, I had the sad privilege of often meeting the families and loved ones of the hostages to express France’s solidarity and resolve to help…
I thank you, Madam President, for your words of welcome. I will endeavour to live up to the bar set by my predecessor, Mr. Nicolas De Rivière, who told me how greatly he valued the cooperative working relations with all members of the Council.
France wishes to thank the Emergency Relief Coordinator…
