I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, the Ambassador of the European Union and the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) for their statements.
It is with the greatest concern that we take the floor today. For more than four years, Iran has violat…
I thank the briefers for their presentations.
The illicit trafficking and uncontrolled dissemination of small arms and light weapons, as well as their ammunition, remain one of the most serious threats to peace and security. Those phenomena aggravate conflicts and fuel terrorism and organized crime…
I would like to thank the Special Representative for his briefing. I welcome the participation of the representative of South Sudan.
I would like to focus on three points.
First, I would like to touch upon the elections. We are concerned about the delay in election preparations. We have also alway…
I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his very thorough briefing, and I reiterate France’s full support to him.
France commends the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa for its efforts and the work it has done to strengthen ties between the O…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, the Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and Ms. Malimukono for their briefings.
I wish to make three points today.
First, 10 years after its signing in Addis Ababa, the Peace, Security and Coopera…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Ms. Al-Jarahi for their briefings. I also welcome the representative of Iraq to today’s meeting. I would first like to affirm France’s solidarity with Iraq following the tragic fire in Qaraqosh on 26 September. Our thoughts are with the…
I too would like to thank Special Representative Nicholas Haysom, Director Edem Wosornu and Racheal Juan for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of South Sudan in this meeting.
On the political front, the lack of progress in drafting a permanent Constit…
I thank Volker Perthes, Edem Wosornu and Mayada Adil for their briefings. I would particularly like to thank Mr. Perthes for his work as Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) for the past two and a half years. I believe we are all conscious of the…
I thank the Special Representative and Ms. Salcedo López for their briefings. I also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia to today’s meeting.
The quest for peace must involve dialogue. That is why we welcomed the conclusion on 9 June of an agreement on a six-month national ceasefire…
I, too, thank Mr. Ebo for his briefing.
As we all know, we are here because the Syrian regime has used weapons of mass destruction against its own population. Independent investigations by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have demonstrated that …
I thank Hans Grundberg, Joyce Msuya and David Gressly for their briefings.
As the Special Envoy said, the situation on the ground is still fragile and we must remain vigilant. We need to see the negotiations, which have been ongoing for months, make progress and result in an agreement. We call on t…
I would like to join others in thanking all the briefers for their presentations today. France also welcomed the formal adoption on Monday of the historic Agreement on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (A/CONF.232/2023/4), designed to protect marine resources and biodiversity on the high sea…
I would like to thank Special Representative Nicholas Haysom; Mr. Charles Tai Gituai, interim Chairperson
of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission; and Mr. Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sant’Egidio, for their briefings. I welcome the representative of South…
I would like to thank the Special Representative, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States and Ms. Tamoifo for their briefings.
I would like to emphasize three points. First of all, France welcomes the solidarity shown by the Sudan’s neighbours, in particu…
I thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg for his briefing and wish him a speedy recovery. I would also like to thank Ms. Ghada Mudawi for her briefing. I welcome the presence of the representative of Yemen in the Chamber today.
On the truce, we welcome the current positive momentum. The context is favo…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The threat posed by the uncontrolled proliferation and diversion of conventional weapons is a grave matter that deserves serious treatment. That is why we regret the attempted exploitation that we are witnessing today. It is astonishing to see…
I thank the Permanent Representative of Ecuador for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I wish him and his team an excellent term at the helm of the 1540 Committee.
Next year we will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1540 (2004),…
I thank briefers for their briefings and would like to make three points.
First of all, we encourage the Somali Government to continue its efforts to implement political reform and fight against Al-Shabaab. Cooperation between the Federal Government of Somalia and the member states is encouraging a…
I thank Hans Grundberg and Martin Griffiths for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of the representatives of Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the Chamber today. For my part, I have three messages.
First, the Security Council must do everything it can to prevent a resumption of hostilities on the…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General, the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations for their briefings.
France is extremely concerned. Iran is pursuing its destabilizing activities …
