http://www.franceonu.org/ fr http://www.franceonu.org/Archives,894/july-september-2008/article/26-september-2008-consultations-on-2550 I just want to say that we hold very useful consultations on Iran. It is very important in our view to reaffirm the unanimity of the Security Council to recall Iran that they have some commitments, some obligations to carry, and that they have to fully respect their commitments and the request of the international community regarding sensitive activities. There is a text that has been written on by the E3+3, and we have started the discussion with the Council, and we are very hopeful that (...) http://www.franceonu.org/Archives,894/july-september-2008/article/19-september-2008-sudan-media View the stakeout e matin, pour revenir très rapidement sur les affaires soudanaises. La position française est extrêmement claire, et a d'ailleurs été réitérée ce matin dans un communiqué du Quai d'Orsay : la France exige du Soudan qu'il respecte les engagements qui sont les siens, et qu'il mette en œuvre les demandes de la communauté internationale, en particulier du Conseil de sécurité, et les demandes qui portent en particulier sur sa coopération avec la Cour pénale internationale. Nous demandons, (...) http://www.franceonu.org/Archives,894/july-september-2008/article/18-september-2008-sudan-and-other View the stakeout The Arab group said that they would ask officially the Security Council to use again article 16 in order to defer the request by Mr Ocampo to arrest Mr Bechir. What is your position ? I can just restate what is the constant position of France, which is for the moment that the question is not raised. If the question is raised tomorrow, the answer of the French delegation will be very clear : we will oppose any intention by anyone to raise article 16 in relation with (...) http://www.franceonu.org/Archives,894/july-september-2008/article/georgia-stake-out-of-mr-jean after Security Council's consultations Good afternoon, We had very useful discussions today in the Council. We had a briefing given by the Secretariat and also by Ambassador Churkin on the state of affairs regarding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia. I think that our assessment based on those information, and based on the elements we had generally is that there are some encouraging signs of a beginning of a withdrawal. But clearly, there is much to do for the withdrawal to be (...) http://www.franceonu.org/Archives,894/july-september-2008/article/20-august-2008-media-stakeout-on View stakeout I will be very brief because I just saw the draft resolution that was circulated by Russia. I was not at the Council, I was briefing our partners from the European Union Georgia. I will reserve my comment to Ambassador Churkin as far as the draft is concerned. But there is one thing I would like to say by way of preliminary comment. Our objective and this have been stated on and on by us, and it is an objective of the European Union, it is to have the Security Council (...)