At the outset, I would like to welcome the presence here today of the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Heiko Maas. I would also like to thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu and Mr. Gustavo Zlauvinen for their briefings on the challenges ahead for the upcoming Review Conference of the Parties t…
At the outset, I welcome the adoption of resolution 2511 (2020). After a final push, we were able to reach a compromise solution that allowed the Council to remain united. It is therefore all the more regrettable that this unity was abandoned at the time of the vote, since the resolution just adopte…
Six years have already passed since Russia’s illegal
annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Despite its guarantees with regard to respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders when it signed the Bud…
I wish to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings. The continued mobilization of the United Nations as a whole, under the leadership of the Secretary-General, is crucial.
France calls for a collective surge to bring to an end the unprecedented humanitarian disaster we are witnessing …
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Chief Monitor of the ОSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for their briefings.
Six yea…
I thank the Special Envoy and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings and reiterate our full support for them. I also thank Ambassador King for her briefing. We have said it time and again: we must put an end to the suffering of the Yemeni people,
and a comprehensiv…
I thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for her briefing, and I once again express to her our full confidence. I also thank Mr. De Roux and Ms. Sooka for their briefings. I will focus on five points.
First, the Colombian and South African experiences perfectly illustrate that …
At the outset, I thank the King of the Belgians for his participation in the Security Council today, as well as the Belgian presidency for taking the initiative to convene this meeting, which further demonstrates its
commitment to the protection of children in armed conflict. I commend in particula…
I thank the Secretary-General and his Special Coordinator for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of
President Abbas among us today. We are all here today in the presence of the Secretary-General because we share the conviction that it is necessary to resume the negotiations process betwee…
I warmly thank Mr. Rama for his briefing. Albania can count on the full support of France in implementing the ambitious work programme that it has set out for its chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). There are three matters that merit our particular attenti…
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings.
In recent months, we have entered a new phase in the ruthless strategy of the Syrian regime. After the horror of the destruction of Aleppo at the end of 2016 and the battle in Ghouta in 2018, we are now witnessing a similar sce…
I thank Ms. DiCarlo and Ms. Muller for their briefings.
France calls for the urgent resumption of a credible peace process, at a time when the deterioration of the situation on the ground is a major source of
instability. That is especially the case in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation is dis…
I thank the Special Envoy, for whom I reiterate our full support, and the representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings.
The urgency of finding a political solution to the crisis remains and that necessity becomes more pressing each day. Efforts to de…
First of all, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations for his briefing.
Six months following the adoption of resolution 2480 (2019), our meeting today is an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made. I would like to make three points.
My first point is re…
I thank the Vietnamese presidency for convening this debate on upholding the Charter of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security. I also welcome the participation of the Secretary-General and Mrs. Mary Robinson and thank them for their briefings. Their message must be heard — …
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his intervention and Ms. Raemer for her testimony. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016) (S/2019/938). Three years after the adoption of the resolution, France regrets that …
I thank you, Madam President, for choosing to address the issue of intercommunal violence and violent extremism in West Africa. I also thank our two briefers for their statements.
The situation in the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin is extremely alarming. Grave intercommunal violence is reported almo…
The Security Council has been working for years on the North Korean nuclear issue and, for years, the threat has continued to increase and worsen. The risks are not only real and empirical, but also extremely high
and growing. As we meet here, the nuclear programme continues to advance and fissile …
On behalf of the seven members of the Foreign Policy and Global Health Initiative — Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand — it is a pleasure to introduce, under agenda item 126, draft resolution A/74/L.26, entitled “Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive appro…
Session after session, discussions on Security Council reform succeed each other without the launch of any real negotiations. The year 2020 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the 2005 World Summit, whose outcome document (resolution 60/1) called for reforming the Council in order to make it more…
