I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your kind and friendly words addressed to me on the occasion of my last appearance in the Chamber. I am very touched. With your permission, I should like to say a few words to the Council.
First of all, it has been an honour for me to represent France a…
I already had the honour, on 26 June, to brief Security Council members on the outcomes of our visit to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see S/PV.5706). The visit was very useful. It was the eighth time that Security Council members had travelled to the Democratic Republic of the C…
I wish first of all to thank the Acting Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the representative of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the United Nations for their briefings this morning. I take…
The last leg of the Security Council’s mission was in Kinshasa on 20 June, and I had the honour to lead it. It was the Council’s eighth visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but this visit had a particular nature because it came in the new context following the elections, which were success…
France associates itself with the statement that the Permanent Representative of Germany will make on behalf of the European Union.
France would like to thank, first of all, the Belgian presidency of the Security Council and Minister Karel de Gucht for organizing this useful debate on an important …
I would like first of all to associate myself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Germany on behalf of the presidency of the European Union.
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your country, Belgium, for having provided us with this opportunity to discuss once aga…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 1757 (2007) which, in response to the request of the Government of Lebanon, will enter into force on 10 June 2007, unless an internal solution is found before then with respect to the provisions of the Agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal fo…
I wish to thank Ambassadors Verbeke, Arias and Burian for their efforts as well as those of their Missions to achieve concrete progress in the work of the three Committees they chair — efforts that are reflected in their reports. The Council must continue to focus on the work of the committees, whos…
I, too, should like at the outset to thank the Under- Secretary-General, Mr. Holmes, for his briefing and to commend him for his courage. His visit to Somalia last week was the first such visit by a United Nations Headquarters official at that level in nearly 15 years. That in itself sends a message…
It is an honour for me to present to the General Assembly the draft resolution under agenda item 114, on multilingualism (A/61/L.56), which delegates have before them. This text, which in a few moments will be adopted by consensus, is the result of negotiations that my delegation has had the privile…
I too would like to thank our Belgian colleague Ambassador Verbeke for the manner in which he led our mission, during which he once again displayed the great diplomatic skill for which he is well known.
I believe that the Security Council mission achieved the objectives we had set for it. We sought…
First, I wish to thank you, Madam President, personally and to congratulate the United Kingdom presidency on taking the initiative to plan this discussion on energy, security and climate.
We believe that climate change is among the principal threats to the future of humankind and to its environment…
I should like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Holmes, for his very detailed briefing. We, too, are very pleased at his appointment, and we wish him every possible success in his highly important mission. We welcome the fact that his first trip was to a region where the humanitarian situati…
Your presence here, Madam President, underscores the importance of this debate. We would like to thank you for your initiative to be here today to preside over the Security Council. We also welcome the presence of Mr. Adada, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Congo, as well as that of Commissioner …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1747 (2007). As was unequivocally demonstrated in the last report of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has failed to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities, nor has it suspended its heavy water…
I, too, wish at the outset to thank Mr. Koenigs and Mr. Costa for the useful information that they have just given us. I broadly share their assessment of the situation. I should also like to welcome the presence of Mr. D’Alema, who highlighted Italy’s efforts to promote the reconstruction of Afghan…
First of all, I would like to welcome the presence in the Council of Mr. Adil Abdal Mahdi, Vice-President of the Republic of Iraq. I also wish to thank Mr. Qazi and the delegation of the United States for their briefings.
Allow me to make the following comments.
First, as others who have spoken be…
I would like, first of all, to thank the Slovak presidency of the Security Council and Minister Ján Kǔbis in particular for organizing this very useful debate on an important topic. We hope very much that today’s
debate will move understanding of the security sector reform forward and will improve …
Somalia, which has for 15 years been marked by violence and suffering, finds itself today at a turning point in its history.
France voted in favour of the resolution that has just been adopted, because we support the efforts of the African Union to help Somalia to return to the path of peace and st…
At the outset, I too would first like to thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing. I would also like to say that my delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Germany on beh…
