I just wanted to thank you once again, Sir, for organizing this morning’s meeting.
I want briefly to support what has been said by the representatives of Singapore and Chile on the role of the Chairpersons of the four round tables. It would indeed be useful for them to play an active part, so that …
I wanted to thank you, Sir, for your extremely vigorous efforts to help us arrive at a consensus on this draft resolution.
I just had a minor comment that concerns the intergovernmental organizations that are mentioned in paragraph 11 of the annex to the draft resolution. France, on behalf of the E…
Allow me, too, to congratulate you, Madam President, regarding this
month of July. While I realize that it has not yet ended — the weekend and Monday remain — we have already had a very active and productive month, for which the French delegation thanks you. I would also like to thank Mr. Annabi fo…
The French delegation thanks the High Representative, Mr. Petritsch, for his briefing this morning.
Once again, we regret that States not members of the Council that are directly involved in the search for a settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in particular the presidency of the European Unio…
Allow me, like previous speakers, to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for the briefing he has given us on the situation in East Timor. I should like to thank the Secretariat and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Vieira de Mello, for the significant amount of work done since last Septembe…
I would like to join the delegations that have already spoken in thanking Mr. Annabi for his oral briefing and the Secretariat for the report on the situation in Tajikistan.
Of course, all is not perfect, far from it; much remains to be done. As Mr. Annabi has noted, the legislative elections were …
I should like to welcome here the Minister for External Relations of Angola, Mr. De Miranda, and Minister Peter Hain of the United Kingdom. We are also pleased to see some members of the Panel here, particularly the Chairman, Ambassador Möllander.
Thank you, Mr. President, for putting the situation…
My delegation associates itself fully with the statement made by Finland on behalf of the European Union.
As a member of the group of Friends of the Secretary-General, we would simply like to note that we are pleased that the General Assembly will be adopting this draft resolution and establishing …
I wish at the outset to thank Under-Secretary-General Miyet for his oral briefing and the Secretary-General for his report.
However, like most delegations that have spoken before us, France deplores and condemns the ceasefire violations that have occurred since July and the numerous ongoing human r…
Although we have just been talking about la Francophonie, unfortunately I am going to have to read this text in the language of Shakespeare. I trust this will be overlooked.
So, the text begins: “Also commends the Director General of the Agency and his staff for their strenuous efforts to implement…
A group of Member States concerned by operative paragraph 9 of the draft resolution has held discussions and agreed that we can accept the new version of operative paragraph 9, which takes fully into account the text in GC(43)/RES/22, adopted by the General Conference of the International Atomic Ene…
I wish to convey France's deep appreciation to President Chiluba of Zambia for his tireless efforts to bring about a peace Agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Security Council and the United Nations at large frequently invoke the primary responsibility of regional organizations; …
I wish first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for this excellent initiative. Much is said among the Members of the United Nations on the lack of transparency in the work of the Security Council. I think that today you have taken an excellent initiative towards transparency, and we particularly ap…
After its long struggle for independence, Sir, your country is presiding over the Security Council this month and you yourself will serve as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. France welcomes this, and welcomes your country’s very effective and active guidance of the Coun…
Mr. President, we are very pleased that it is under the presidency of Namibia that the Security Council has been
The draft resolution submitted to the Council authorizes the deployment of new United Nations observers to Sierra Leone within the framework of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sie…
Today, in renewing the oil-for-food programme for a sixth phase, the
At the beginning of April the panel formulated ambitious recommendations to improve the functioning of resolution 986 (1995) and to assist the Iraqi population. We would have hoped that all these proposals would have come into for…
The French delegation supports the draft resolution on which we are about to vote extending the mandate of the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) until 30 November 1999.
We firmly support this extension for the following reasons.
MIPONUH, under the impetus of the Representat…
