A little over a month after the adoption of resolution 1701 (2006), which led to the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon and established the parameters for a lasting political solution between the two countries, one fact is clear: stability in the Middle East will require the settlem…
I would like to thank Greece for organizing this meeting on a subject that has taken on growing importance for the Security Council recently. I would also like to underline the presence of the Secretary-General in order to pay tribute to his efforts in strengthening cooperation between his instituti…
Finally, the Security Council is deciding to put an end to the war in Lebanon and Israel. Finally, it is putting an end to the destruction, to the plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced people on both sides of the border, to an economic and humanitarian situation that has grown more and more t…
I should like to read out a statement by Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic.
“In the fight against AIDS, the international community has undertaken two commitments: to ensure universal access to treatment by 2010 —
that is, by tomorrow; and to have reversed the progress of the pa…
It is rare that the Security Council meets to discuss a
happy event, but that is the case today. We are particularly glad to welcome the agreement reached in Abuja that finally lays the groundwork for peace in Darfur.
It is equally gratifying that this meeting is being held under your presidency, …
As I take the floor to speak in France’s name before this Assembly, allow me to say how moved I am. To speak of the Holocaust is neither a banal nor a trivial matter. As Primo Levi noted in his masterpiece, “If This Is a Man”, the Shoah is about man, his dignity and freedom.
We who have gathered in…
On 14 February 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others were assassinated in a cowardly terrorist attack in the heart of Beirut. We have solemnly gathered here today to reaffirm our resolve to seek the truth and to punish those guilty of this heinous act.
At the outset, on be…
Speaking for the first time from this rostrum, I wish to reaffirm here the importance France attaches to the multilateral system. Our common future cannot be envisaged without strengthening it.
The declaration adopted the day before yesterday is a milestone in that direction, even if it does not me…
