I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as Ukraine, the Re…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for organizing this important debate and to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. I also wish to thank the delegation of Uganda for the skill
and effectiveness with which it presided over our work last month.
I welcome the b…
The French delegation had the honour and the responsibility of preparing the text of the resolution that has just been adopted by the Security Council. Over time, the Security Council has developed a largely unified view on resolving the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire, as my delegation noted here last we…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the Permanent Representative of Burma for his statement, to which I listened with great attention. It was essential for the Council to be informed without delay of the results of the mission of the Secretary-General at t…
I should like at the outset to thank Under-Secretaries-General Lynn Pascoe and Susana Malcorra for their presentations, as well as our colleague the Permanent Representative of Somalia.
Two months ago almost to the day, the insurgents of Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam rejected the path of dialogue and…
Mr. President, at the outset, let me express our deep gratitude to you for the manner in which you have guided our work. You have demonstrated talent and exceptional mastery under very trying circumstances. As you now prepare to leave New York, Sir, I would like to express to you our admiration and …
I should first like to thank the Turkish presidency of the Council for organizing this debate. France is very committed to improving the functioning of United Nations peacekeeping. We welcome the current heightened activity on this issue, which seems to us to reflect, first of all, a convergence of …
I wish at the outset, Mr. President, to thank you for this opportunity to address once again the question of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We welcome the Secretariat’s ongoing commitment to this matter, and in that regard I thank Mr. John Holmes for introducing the report of the Sec…
First of all I would like to welcome the President and to thank him for his presence and for chairing the meeting today. I also thank Mr. De Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and a very old friend, for his briefing to the Council. I take the opportunity to welcome his courageo…
I would like to thank Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, for their presence.
I also wish to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his statement and for the work that he an…
In resolution 1866 (2009), which we adopted and co-sponsored unanimously, we expressed our intention to decide on the future of the United Nations presence on the basis of the Secretary-General’s report. That report, entitled “Report ... pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1808 (2008), 1839 (20…
I would like first to thank Ambassador Takasu for his briefing. This presentation comes at a good time to remind us of the reality of the Iranian nuclear dossier. The Director
General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has just given us a shocking overview of that reality in the repor…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1874 (2009). The international community has sent a very strong message to North Korea through the Council.
For years, North Korea has chosen a dangerous path. It has built up a clandestine nuclear programme, whose exclusively military aims are e…
I wish at the outset to welcome the new High Representative and to thank him for his statement this morning. We fully agree with his analysis of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I wish also to welcome Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We take …
I would first like to thank the Secretariat, the Security Council team, Mr. Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, his deputies and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) in general, as well as President
Obasanjo’s team, for orga…
As the Council has had occasion to state on numerous occasions, there is no solution other than a negotiated, mutually acceptable political solution to the issue of the Western Sahara, whose resolution remains necessary — as all are convinced — not only for the Sahara but for the entire Maghreb regi…
France fully supports the activities of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) and more generally speaking those of the Secretary-General and of the United Nations system in that country. France is firmly committed to the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which UNMIS is m…
France fully endorses the statement to be made later today by the representative of the Czech Republic on behalf of the European Union.
At the outset, allow me to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico for her initiative to bring us together here today to address the issue of children and…
I, too, would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and to thank the Libyan presidency for the skill it demonstrated last month.
France aligns itself fully with the statement to be made later by the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republi…
I wish to begin by conveying my gratitude to the Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs for his presentation and to the Permanent Observer of Palestine and the ambassador of Israel for their statements. I also wish to voice my full support for the statement to be delivered later by the Perma…
