France

Mr President of the General Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of State and Government, Ministers, Ambassadors, I speak here on behalf of a country that...

It is an honour for me to speak before the General Assembly on behalf of France. I do so knowing how important our common Assembly is. this Assembly of all our ...

It is an honour for me to speak before the Assembly on behalf of France. At this point in time, I am thinking of those who have fought in my country and everywh...

President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General, Heads of State and Government, Heads of Delegation, By reminding us of the extent to which our destinies a...

President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Heads of State and Government, ladies and gentlemen, Last year, we met in New York f...

We are gathered here at the General Assembly at a time when the Secretary-General has chosen the very important theme of climate — we met on the subject yesterd...

All of us here are heirs to the great hope to save future generations from the scourge of war, to build an international order based on law and respect for one’...

I am privileged to address the General Assembly, and I know to whom I owe this privilege. I owe it to all those who, just over 70 years ago, rose up against a b...

It is always an honour for me to address the General Assembly. It is also a responsibility — above all given the serious and worrying situation in the world. I ...

Our Organization, the United Nations, is celebrating its seventieth anniversary. Immense progress has been made since it was established as an institution entru...

The Assembly will understand that I am speaking today with particular emotion, because one of my compatriots has just been the subject of a cowardly assassin...

It is an honour for the United Nations to act everywhere where the freedom of peoples is denied. It is an honour for the United Nations to act where fundamen...

This is the first time that I speak from this rostrum at the United Nations. It is a very moving moment for me because I understand what the United Nations rep...

When we met in this very place in September last year, who among us could have imagined that in barely one year the world, already shaken by an unprecedented...

I come to this rostrum on behalf of France to express my sincere and fervent faith in the United Nations. France’s ambition is to be a major actor in buildin...

In speaking to the General Assembly in France’s name today, I am well aware that we all have a historic responsibility in the current circumstances. In the...

I bring you fraternal greetings from Europe — Europe that is conscious of its responsibilities and wishes to act; Europe that is true to its values — democra...

To all the peoples represented here, I convey the brotherly greetings of France. Mr. Secretary-General, you have an enormous responsibility, and you have th...

Lebanon has again been set ablaze by war, a further manifestation of the interminable conflict in the Middle East whose tragedies have, for 60 years now, pu...

Speaking for the first time from this rostrum, I wish to reaffirm here the importance France attaches to the multilateral system. Our common future cannot be en...