The Council is about to adopt a draft resolution extending the sixth phase of the humanitarian arrangements in Iraq, established by resolution 986 (1995), for a period of 15 days. We hope that the members of the Council will make good use of this period of time in order to make progress in the discu…
The delegation of France wishes to welcome your presence here today, Sir, to preside over this formal meeting of the Security Council. I wish to thank you for having reflected the views of the members of the Security Council in expressing our condolences to the families of those members of the World…
The situation in Burundi is difficult. Mr. Fall's statement was instructive. We should like to thank him for his account of the situation, which, once again, was as precise as it was rigorous.
The death of the Facilitator of the Arusha peace process, Julius Nyerere, has brought about a period of un…
The draft resolution that we are about to adopt provides for the creation of a United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). This is an essential step; those who initiated it should be congratulated. We also congratulate the Governments of Portugal and of Indonesia, the countrie…
The signing in Lomé on 7 July 1999 of a peace agreement between the legitimate Government of Sierra Leone and the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front set in motion a dynamic for a return to peace after nine years of a particularly cruel civil conflict. We all remember the testimony of those who…
Acts of terrorism can constitute a threat to international peace and security. This is recalled in the draft resolution submitted today at your initiative, Mr. President, for a vote by the Council. And this is what the General Assembly solemnly affirmed in 1994 in the Declaration on Measures to Elim…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for including this item on our agenda and for convening this open debate on the welcome initiative of Canada. I wish also to thank the Secretary-General and Mrs. Mary Robinson for their presence here today and for their statements, which attest to th…
This debate in the Security Council was necessary. We are grateful to Member States who requested an immediate meeting. Of course, Security Council members will have to hear the conclusions of the mission they dispatched to the territory to decide on future action. But it is only right that, with an…
I wish first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, and to join others in congratulating and encouraging Ambassador Fowler on the timely initiatives he has taken this year.
It made great sense for him to travel to the region affected by the sanctions regime. Last year, the …
First, I thank you, Sir, for having invited the Security Council to join in the mourning and sorrow of the royal family of Morocco for the passing of His Majesty Hassan II. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for having represented the United Nations through his presence at His Majesty’s f…
The Council is naturally honoured that this meeting is being held under the presidency of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, and that it concerns a subject of great importance to my country.
Nothing can replace agreement by the parties concerned to apply peace arrangements in good faith.…
The adoption by the Security Council of this resolution is a decisive step towards settling the crisis in Kosovo. For more than a year the Security Council has been seized of the matter. On several occasions over the course of more than a year it has taken a position on the humanitarian situation in…
Since the beginning of the tragic events in Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the members of the Security Council have on several occasions expressed their great concern. But today for the first time the Council is indicating its feelings and its resolve in a draft resolution. We welcome the i…
First of all, the delegation of France wishes to express its
France is engaged in an action undertaken with its allies that is aimed at putting an end to the intolerable actions of the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a policy of deportation that has made it necessary and legitima…
During the formal meeting held by the Security Council on 24 March 1999, my delegation laid out the reasons for France’s involvement in the actions under way in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Security Council adopted resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998) and 1203 (1998) under Chapter VII of…
Drawing lessons from the tragedy that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and its partners in the Contact Group mobilized very early to react to the crisis in Kosovo, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. That action was aimed at bringing to an end the violence by the parties and at arriving …
The draft resolution that we shall be adopting on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA) marks an important stage in the pursuit of the process of peace and national reconciliation begun in January 1997 with the conclusion of the Bangui A…
I wish to thank Canada and especially you, Sir, and the Permanent Representative of Canada for your very welcome initiative of convening the Security Council and inviting the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Director General of the United Nations Children’s Fund …
Allow me to join all those who have thanked you personally, Mr. President, for suggesting and convening this meeting and for having invited your compatriot, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, to share his views. As always he has expressed them in an extremely clear, precise, well-documented and thought-pro…
