France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2352 (2017), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for six months. It is indeed crucial to continue to closely follow the situation between the Sudan and South Sudan and to align the mission with its …
I would add my thanks to those expressed by other members of the Security Council to the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, as well as to the President of Serbia,
Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, and to the Ambassador of Kosovo, Ms. Vlora Çitaku.
I should like to begin my state…
I thank the four briefers for their introductory remarks, and the Senegalese presidency of the Security Council for convening this debate.
France fully endorses the statement to be made shortly by the Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union. I have four points to make.
First, t…
Allow me to begin by thanking our briefers for their enlightening statements. I also thank Senegal for taking the initiative to convene this meeting with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on a matter of such mutual concern — the fight against violent extremism. That is an issue at the cr…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2319 (2016), which makes it possible to renew the mandate of the joint mechanism for the investigation and attribution of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism, for one year.
This is a time of unity on t…
