http://www.franceonu.org/ fr http://www.franceonu.org/france-at-the-united-nations/press-room/statements-at-open-meetings/security-council/article/17-june-2013-security-council (UN translation) I would like to thank the President for having organized today's debate. I would also like to thank the briefers and other speakers. I congratulate the delegation of Luxembourg on the way it has conducted the chairmanship of the Working Group, and I reiterate France's support. The United Nations approach to protecting children in armed conflict has made it possible to demobilize tens of thousands of children. Action plans are the cornerstone of that approach. Thanks to (...) http://www.franceonu.org/france-at-the-united-nations/un-express-922/article/17-june-2013-syria-resolution-by Statement by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs We welcome the resolution adopted on June 14 by the UN Human Rights Council on the increasingly tragic situation that is prevailing in Syria. This text demands that immediate, free and unrestricted access to the Syrian territory be provided to the commission of inquiry on Syria, whose objectivity should not be called into question. It is up to the Damascus authorities to meet this requirement set forth by the international (...) http://www.franceonu.org/france-at-the-united-nations/un-express-922/article/17-june-2013-first-preparatory Statement by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Mr. Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will chair, at the Quai d'Orsay on June 17, the first Steering Committee meeting to prepare for the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 21) to be held in Paris in 2015. The Steering Committee meeting will provide an opportunity to review the status of UN negotiations and to establish the initial guidelines in order to prepare for COP 21, in coordination with the presidencies (...) http://www.franceonu.org/france-at-the-united-nations/un-express-922/article/17-june-2013-sudan-attack-against Statement by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson France strongly condemns the attack against a logistics base belonging to the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in Kadugli, Sudan, which left an Ethiopian soldier dead and several other people injured. France extends its condolences to the Ethiopian authorities and the victim's family. The perpetrators of these attacks must be held accountable for their actions. France reaffirms its unfailing (...) http://www.franceonu.org/france-at-the-united-nations/press-room/statements-at-open-meetings/security-council/article/14-june-2013-security-council (UN translation) I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and Mr. Ivica Dačić, Prime Minster of Serbia, and Mr. Hashim Thaçi, Prime Minister of Kosovo, for their statements. The Security Council is meeting for the first time since the historic agreement of 19 April was achieved between Serbia and Kosovo under the auspices of the European Union. The agreement lays the bases for normalized relations that will contribute to regional stability and enable the (...)