I thank Ms. Rochdi and Mr. Rajasingham for their briefings.
Only a political solution based on the implementation of resolution 2254 (2015), in all its aspects, will make it possible to achieve a just and lasting peace in Syria. The continued increase in tensions, the resurgence of Da’esh and the b…
I thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing and assure him of France’s full support.
In adopting resolution 2735 (2024), the Security Council demanded that Hamas accept, as Israel did, the United States peace plan, and urged both parties to implement its provisions fully, without any delay or condition…
I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo and the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) for their briefings.
For more than five years, Iran has violated its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Over the past six months, those violations have continued and worsene…
I thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Duguin and Ms. Ifeanyi-
Ajufo for their briefings, and I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate.
The expansion of information and communication technologies is contributing to progress and to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Neve…
I thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
France welcomes the holding of the high-level conference for peace in Ukraine last weekend at
Bürgenstock, Switzerland. Approximately 100 countries met to define together the foundations of what a just and lasting peace should be. The international community w…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
This is the sixteenth time that Russia has requested a meeting on Western arms deliveries to Ukraine. In the face of the disaster it has triggered, Russia’s only response is a new attempt to shift its own responsibility back to others. Western weapons are no…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing.
On 27 May, North Korea attempted to launch another military reconnaissance satellite. Last November, after two unsuccessful attempts, it succeeded in placing a satellite of that type into orbit. As the Secretary- General did…
I would like to thank Mr. Grandi for his briefing, and above all for his work at the helm of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
This year, 2024, has been marked by crises that are driving millions of people to flee fighting, persecution or the consequences of f…
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Griffiths for their briefings. I would also like to pay a heartfelt tribute to Mr. Griffiths for all that he has done on the Syrian dossier and, more generally, for his extraordinary
contribution to the activities of the United Nations in recent years. All…
I would like to thank Tor Wennesland for his briefing, and I once again pledge France’s full support.
France calls for an immediate ceasefire and reiterates its opposition to the current Israeli military operation in Rafah, which has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Th…
I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo, Ms. Bahous, Ms. Diouf and Mr. Paullier Olivera for their briefings.
France thanks Mozambique for organizing this debate. It is an opportunity to examine peacebuilding from a perspective that considers both the women and peace and security agenda and the youth, pea…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for their statements.
I would like to emphasize two points.
First, France calls for strengthening the capacitie…
I would like to thank Ms. Doughten and Ms. Howarth for their briefings.
For more than 800 days now, Russia has persisted in its war of aggression against Ukraine, in violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. Russia is continuing to violate international humanitarian law …
France deplores Russia’s veto of draft resolution S/2024/302, on outer space, which the United States and Japan had submitted to the Security Council. France is one of the 13 members of the Council that voted in favour of the
draft. It is one of the 65 States from all regional groups that chose to …
France voted in favour of draft resolution S/2024/312, submitted by Algeria, proposing the admission of Palestine to the United Nations, because we are in favour of upgrading the status of Palestine at the United Nations and its admission as a full Member. We believe that it is time to reach a compr…
Russia has once again called for a meeting on Nord Stream, although there have been no developments since the
last consultation we held on the subject, on 14 March. We rightfully question Russia’s zeal regarding the file and its deep concern with regard to the attack on that energy infrastructure. …
I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen, Mr. Rajasingham and Ms. Hayford for their briefings.
Given the increase in hostilities in the Middle East since October 2023, our responsibility is to do everything within our power to ease tensions. All actors must exercise restraint. France continues to work wi…
I would like to thank Ms. Sigrid Kaag, Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, for her briefing. France calls for the full implementation of resolutions 2712 (2023) and 2720 (2023).
Ms. Kaag’s account confirms the catastrophic state of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Two mi…
I thank the Secretariat for its briefing.
Only 24 hours ago, we met (see S/PV.9600) to discuss the plight of civilians4 in Ukraine. Everyone will remember the devastating toll of Russia’s strikes against civilians, residential areas and Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Against that backdrop, no one…
On 28 March, the Security Council was due to vote on the renewal of the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Panel was established by a unanimous vote of the Council in 2009 …
