France

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Jamal Fares Alrowaiei (Bahrain):

On Sunday, 8 June, the Secretary-General arrived in Nice, France, to take part in the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica.

The new Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, Jérôme Bonnafont, presented his credentials to UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today.

On Monday, 10 February, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Paris where, on Tuesday, he would attend the Artificial Intelligence Summit, co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.

The UN Human Rights Office today released a report which says that Bangladesh’s former Government, security and intelligence services, as well as violent elements associated with the Awami League party, systematically engaged in a range of serious human rights violations during last year’s student-led protests.

In Somalia, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that drought conditions are looming in several areas of the country due to prolonged extreme dry conditions, with hundreds of thousands of families likely to be impacted.

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in France on Friday, 26 July, to attend the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the invitation of the International Olympic Committee and the Government of France.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres departed New York on Tuesday evening, 20 June.

The Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme and the mine action partner Foundation Suisse de Déminage have launched a programme for farmers most affected by the war in Ukraine to support smallholder farmers with plots smaller than 300 hectares and rural families growing food for their own consumption.

Over the past four weeks, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying some 17,000 tons of aid to different parts of Sudan. Fifty of those trucks moved during the first two days of the latest ceasefire.