It was an honour to lead the Security Council mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo alongside you, Mr. President, and the Permanent Representative of Gabon. The visit allowed members of the Council to take stock of the situation on the ground. I thank the Congolese authorities for their welcom…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. I also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing and welcome the presence of the Chairperson of the African Union here among us today.
Terrorism continues to pose a serious threat to international peace and s…
I thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Talahma for their briefings. I would like to underscore two points.
France has just increased its assistance to the Syrian people once again. International donors pledged €950 million at the conference held in Brussels on Monday, 20 March. France has announced an additi…
I would like to thank Tor Wennesland for his briefing. I will make four points.
First, France is extremely concerned about the ongoing deterioration of the situation on the ground and the continuing violence, which is reaching an unprecedented level. France strongly condemns all violence against ci…
I thank Mr. Jenča for his briefing.
In the past, each launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) led to condemnation by the Security Council and a call to respect its unanimously adopted resolutions. However, for more than a year and in the face of the increasing number of launches, we …
I thank Mr. Griffiths for his briefing.
The Russian aggression against Ukraine is being carried out in violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of all treaties protecting civilians. The General Assembly again condemned that aggression in a clear and strong ma…
I would like to thank Mr. Zouev and Mr. Adeoye for their briefings and to underscore three points.
First, the security sector reform needed to promote lasting peace should be part of a project encompassing political and governance issues as a whole. France welcomes the United Nations programme of a…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
As we all know, we are here because the Syrian regime has used weapons of mass destruction against its own people. Independent investigations by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have proved that it occurr…
I thank the Special Representative for her briefing and for her work as Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). I would also like to thank the Chair of the Central African Republic configuration of the Peacebuilding Comm…
I thank the Special Coordinator and the Deputy Commissioner- General for their briefings.
I would like to begin by welcoming today’s adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2023/1. It is important for the Security Council to be able to express itself unanimously on the recent unilateral measures …
I thank Mr. Khiari for his briefing.
France condemns in the strongest terms the resumption of ballistic missile launches by North Korea. The launch of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental missile towards Japan’s exclusive economic zone last Saturday, as well as the firing of two new ballistic missiles yes…
I thank Mr. Jenča and Mr. Sajdik for their briefings.
Russia has requested this meeting today in a retrospective attempt to justify the unjustifiable — its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and resolution 2202
(2015), which endorses the Minsk…
First of all, I would like to thank Malta for convening this important debate and all the speakers for their contributions. The Paris Agreement has set the course we must take in limiting global warming by 1.5°C and increasing our capacity to mitigate, adapt and be resilient to climate change, espec…
I thank Ms. Gamba de Potgieter, Ms. Maalla M’jid and Ms. Divina for their briefings.
The protection of children in situations of armed conflict must remain a priority for the Council. France has been committed to this agenda since its beginnings, and the Maltese presidency of the Working Group on C…
I thank Mr. Voronkov, Mr. Chen and Ms. Praxl for their briefings. I would like to make two points.
First, the terrorist threat is not abating, which means we must be ever more vigilant. Da’esh remains a fundamental threat. In the Levant, our efforts remain essential, as evidenced by Da’esh’s aim of…
We meet today at Russia’s request. Russia is concerned about the lack of prospects for a peaceful settlement of the war of aggression that it decided to start nearly a year ago in Ukraine. That situation would be almost laughable were the suffering of Ukrainians not so grave and the atrocities commi…
First of all, let me express my condolences to the bereaved families in the wake of the devastating double earthquake that hit southern Türkiye and north-western Syria yesterday. I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu, Mr. Arias and Mr. Oñate-Laborde for their briefings.
France has taken note of the third report i…
The Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has drawn up a serious and detailed report, the result of a two-year investigation of the chemical-weapon attack in Douma in 2018. We would therefore like Mr. Oñate-Laborde to be invited to c…
I thank Mr. Griffiths for his briefing. As we approach 24 February, the tragic one-year anniversary of the war, Russia has continued its strikes on Ukrainian civil ian infrastructure. There was a new wave of bombings on 26 January, during the visit of France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affair…
I thank Mr. Pedersen and Ms. Mudawi for their briefings.
I would like to stress three points.
First, as we do every month, we regret the absence of any openness on the part of the regime to negotiate
under the aegis of the United Nations the basis for a lasting peace as defined by resolution 2254…
