The United Nations Charter entrusts to the Security Council the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The Organization also recognizes the sovereignty of nations and non-interference as fundamental principles. In 2005, the evolution of our work led us to recognize …
We meet today so that the Security Council can shoulder its responsibility towards a people that is suffering, in a region where peace is threatened by the bloody downward spiral of a regime gasping its last. The months-long silence of the Council is no longer acceptable. To its credit, the League o…
Preventive diplomacy — which was a mere concept half a century ago, until formalized by former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in his 1992 report An Agenda for Peace (S/24111) — has become an essential means of action within the United Nations. The stakes are clearly identified at the very h…
Just before the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on HIV and AIDS opens tomorrow, I would like to thank President Bongo Ondimba for the initiative to hold a debate on this topic, which is too often overlooked or neglected.
In 30 years, AIDS has killed some 30 million people and orphaned mo…
Allow me first to thank you, Sir, for your warm words of welcome, which I deeply appreciated.
The world is experiencing one of the great revolutions that change the course of history. From North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the Arab people clamour to breathe the air of liberty and democracy. From th…
Today, it is a great joy and honour for me to address the General Assembly on behalf of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, who is also current President of the European Union and whom I am mandated to represent at this plenary meeting of the Assembly on interreligious dialogue.
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I should like to thank the Secretary of State of the United States for the very precise account he has given us of the deployment of the multinational force that was authorized under Security Council resolution 940 (1994). As the Council is aware, France voted unhesitatingly for that resolution beca…
France is especially pleased, Mr. President, to see the General Assembly meeting under your authority. At the end of a year marked by the passing of an extraordinary statesman, President Houphouët-Boigny, your election has given the international community another occasion to stop and think about th…
