I thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate. I will address two points: first, the particular links between security and development, and then the specific case of peacekeeping operations.
First, the links between security and development. While there is no unequivocal relationship between e…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Haile Menkerios for his briefing and his outstanding work at the head of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS). I also thank President Mbeki and President Mkapa for their decisive work alongside UNMIS in the past few mo…
I thank Baroness Ashton for her briefing. I welcome this second visit of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, which attests to the importance of European Union engagement within the United Nations.
I need not recall that the European Union has long …
I thank Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Mr. Jack Lang for his report (S/2011/30) and proposals, Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Mr. Mathias for his support for those proposals, and the Permanent Representative of Somalia for his statement.
Not only is piracy is a threat to in…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this debate on the complex issue of institution-building. There can be no lasting emergence from conflict without reconstruction and national institution-building; when they are lacking, conditions conducive to violence can quickly re-emerge.
As previous speakers hav…
I thank Alain Le Roy, Valerie Amos and the chargé d’affaires of Haiti for their statements.
Since the earthquake in January 2010, Haiti has been shaken by other trials — Hurricane Tomas and the cholera epidemic. This series of disasters explains why there is still a need for urgent humanitarian aid…
I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs for his briefing and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for his statement.
France associates itself with the statement to be made by the Head of the Delegation of the European Union.
The peace process in the Middle East remai…
I would first like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haile Menkerios for his outstanding work heading the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. I would also like to thank President Mkapa for his briefing and his assessment of the process.
What has been reported to us here toda…
France joins in the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union.
I welcome the initiative of the United States presidency of the Council to convene this open debate. In adopting resolution 1888 (2009) last year, the Security Council improved the regime for combating
sexual violence in arm…
I thank Mr. Le Roy, President Mkapa, the State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs of the Sudan Mr. Mutrif Siddiq, and the Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Mr. Pagan Amum, for their presence and their presentations.
Now, a few weeks before the referendum, everything should…
I thank Vice President Biden, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister Zebari for their statements. I should like to join in the tribute paid to Ambassador Holbrooke. As a European, I would like in particular to recall the role he played in the conclusion of the Dayton Accords, which put an end to…
I would like to thank the United Kingdom for having organized this debate.
In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) enabled the Sudan to emerge from a deadly 20-year civil war. Today, we must implement the Peace Agreement in order to avoid a return to violence and civil war. The Peace Agree…
I would like to thank, for their presence here and for their briefings, Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mrs. Vlora Çitaku, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. I would of course also like to commend the work of Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Represen…
France aligns itself with the statement that will be made on behalf of the European Union.
Implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) remains imperfect. Sexual violence continues at an intolerable level, and only 7 per cent of peace negotiating teams are women. Hence, a great deal remains to be done.…
I would like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing. I also thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine and the Permanent Representative of Israel for their statements. France associates itself with the statement to be made by the head of the European Union delegation.
I would like to make f…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. France endorses the statement to be delivered by the representative of the European Union.
I think that everyone around this table is in broad agreement regarding the need to improve the effectiveness of the means by which the international com…
I would of course like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for the presentation of the report (S/2010/463) and the briefing on the situation in Afghanistan they have just made.
The representative of…
I would of course like to thank the Turkish presidency of the Security Council for having organized this debate. We have all been or could be affected by terrorism, as France found several days ago with the kidnapping of five of its citizens in Niger.
France would therefore like to see the United N…
Allow me, Mr. President, on behalf of the People’s Republic of China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, to thank you for convening this follow-up meeting to the High-level Meeting held on 24 September 2010. We …
At the outset I would like to thank Ambassador Nishida for his first 90-day report as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). I take this opportunity to hail his predecessor, Ambassador Takasu, for his outstanding work as Chair of the Committee.
The g…
