At the outset, I should like to commend France for its initiative to convene today’s high-level open debate. I am particularly grateful to you, Sir, for inviting me here to reiterate, for the second time, the crucial importance of the implementation of the provisions of resolution 1325 (2000), of 31…
We were cruelly confronted by the news of the two attacks that took place in quick succession yesterday and the day before in Mali, which claimed the life of a French soldier in a mine explosion and that of a Togolese peacekeeper in an ambush that also injured seven other persons, three of them crit…
