I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Carlos Ruiz Massieu Aguirre, and the civil society representative, Clemencia Carabalí Rodallega, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome the participation in this meeting of the Colombian Minister for Foreign …
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for your statement and your visit to Mogadishu and to reiterate to you France’s full support in your work.
I should like to touch on to three points.
The first relates to the arms embargo, which remains an essential tool for moving towards sustainable peace
in …
At the outset, I would like to thank our three speakers for their briefings and to reiterate France’s full support for the Special Representative. I would like to stress four points.
First, France is concerned about the stalemate in relations between the Somali Federal Government and certain federa…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, and Ambassador Costa Filho, who chairs the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ni…
I would first like to warmly thank our briefers for their briefings on the threat posed by Da’esh. I would also like to salute the courage of Ms. Freij, who spurs us to pursue our efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat, particularly Da’esh.
The military defeats suffered by Da’esh show that the c…
I would like to start by thanking our briefers for their statements. I also want to express our sadness on hearing of the death yesterday in Mogadishu of the human rights defender Ms. Almaas Elman. We offer our condolences to her family, especially Ms. Ilwad Elman, who was with us the day before yes…
I thank the Ambassador of Belgium for his briefing and reiterate France’s full support for the realization of his mission.
I will focus on three points.
The first concerns the arms embargo, which, as our United Kingdom colleague mentioned earlier, is vital. It directly impairs the ability of terro…
At the outset, I wish to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga for their briefings.
I would like to begin by commending the bilateral rapprochement between the Sudan and South Sudan, particularly President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s leading role in launching the Sudanese peace tal…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2491 (2019), which extends for 12 months the legal framework established by resolution 2240 (2015) and
reaffirms our collective determination to combat tirelessly the smuggling of migrants and refugees off the coast of Libya.
This collective und…
First, I wish to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant-Secretary-
General for Africa, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the positive developments in Guinea-Bissau …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, as well as Ambassador Meza-Cuadra, for your commitment as Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism, resolutions 1267
(1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the…
At the outset, I would like to warmly thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his informative briefing and personal commitment to the matter at hand. I also thank the Swiss Ambassador, Mr. Jürg Lauber, who is doing extremely useful work as Chair of the Burun…
I should like to begin by thanking Ambassador Joanna Wronecka for her briefing on the activities carried out in 2018 by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591
(2005), concerning the Sudan, and to commend her work as Chair of that sanctions Committee for the past year. The initiatives…
France takes note of the Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2444 (2018). From the outset France has given unwavering support to the ongoing rapprochement process in the Horn of Africa. This is a historic development, creating unprecedented opportunities for stabilization and development in t…
France welcomes the unanimous renewal, for a period of 12 months, of the authorization on which the action of the European Union military operation in the Southern Central Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR MED operation SOPHIA) is based in order to fight against the smuggling of migrants and human trafficking…
I too would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sudan and South Sudan, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for their informative briefings.
This meeting comes at an important time for the Sudan and S…
We wish you every success, Madam President, in your country’s presidency in September, which is never an easy month as it coincides with the plenary session of the General Assembly.
With regard to the provisional programme of work that you presented to us this morning, we wish to note our full supp…
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Óscar Naranjo Trujillo, Vice-President of Colombia, and pay tribute to him for his personal commitment to peace and the role he played in the negotiation and implementation of the Peace Agreement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Co…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate. I also thank Ms. Zewde and African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Chergui for their very interesting briefings.
For France, the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) is of strategi…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations for his very enlightening statement. I also welcome the presence around the table of the Malian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and thank him for having made the trip to New York in order to participate in our…
