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1993-09-24
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  1. “First, Member States which do not pay their contributions within 30 days following the Secretary-General’s call for contributions should be penalized. France proposes that market-rate interest should be imposed on all late payments. This firm stance seems particularly necessary because the payment of accumulated arrears alone would suffice to resolve the financial crisis. It is also consistent with considerations of fairness and political morality. One cannot simultaneously speak of United Nations reform, justice and international development and exempt oneself from the primary financial obligation resulting from adherence to our Charter. It is high time to measure the generosity of words against the yardstick of arrears due our Organization.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  2. “The Secretary-General still does not have all the means to exercise his responsibility to the full. France calls on the Member States to provide him with those means without delay. Strengthening the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, establishing a mechanism for a true general inspection, and setting up a court for budgetary discipline are, in our eyes, indispensable measures. 24 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session The third requirement for strengthening the Organization is a clean-up of its finances. Perhaps I should have begun with this point. According to an old French saying, money is "the sinew of war". It is also the sinew of peace. Our projects for this Organization will be no more than empty words unless we have the courage to adopt the new measures that its financial bankruptcy requires.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  3. “Allow me to pay a tribute to the energy, authority and courage with which our Secretary-General is carrying out his missions. France approves not only of his political initiatives but also of his tireless efforts to rationalize the functioning of our Organization. We must combat the proliferation of institutions, which consumes our resources and threatens the coherence of our efforts. We must improve the coordination of activities linked to development and restore to the Economic and Social Council its role as a provider of stimulus and organization. We must combat administrative waste wherever it exists, without hesitating to punish any abuses that may be uncovered. Lastly, we must have more supervision and greater transparency in peace-keeping operations.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  4. “In their wisdom, those who drafted the Charter recognized that only a group of limited size could take prompt measures to restore peace when confronted with an urgent crisis. We should therefore take care that the projected enlargement does not lead to a paralysis of the Council. France hopes that at its present session the General Assembly will decide to open discussions on ways to reform the Security Council. A solution will have to be found that reconciles the will to reform with the desire for effectiveness. This is why enlargement, in our view, will have to be decided according to a formula combining new permanent members and additional non-permanent members. The Secretary-General is a key institution of the United Nations. France would like him to be given the means to carry through the innovative action he has undertaken.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  5. “Because it believes in the mission of the United Nations, France wants a strong and effective Organization. This goal involves, first of all, the reforming of the Security Council. Its enlargement, which has become necessary today in the light of the world’s evolution, must be envisioned as the way to increase its effectiveness. France understands and supports the aspirations of some of its partners to exercise their international responsibilities more actively, provided that they are ready to commit themselves in the field. However, the expansion of the Council should not be achieved at the expense of one or another group of States; in particular, it must preserve the capacity of the developing countries to make their voices heard. In our view, this is an essential requirement.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  6. “It is essential for us to acquire the means to avoid the repetition of such a conflict, and to ensure, without waiting for future progress in the construction of a united Europe, that preventive diplomacy, military openness and respect for the rule of law prevail wherever latent tensions remain. This is the intent of the proposed pact on European stability which France has submitted to its European partners and to which it would like to associate Russia, as well as its allies across the Atlantic, Canada and the United States. Europe is, of course, far from being the sole horizon of France’s action. My country has long-standing, close relations with many parts of the world. For the long-term organization of the international scene in the aftermath of the cold war, France naturally turns to the United Nations.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  7. “It has so far been the only country to send reinforcements in accordance with resolution 836 (1993) in order to contribute to the security of the protected areas and the Muslim populations there. France was, as well, the first nation to deplore the inadequacy of the actions taken by the international community in regard to the former Yugoslavia. The efforts it has made entitled it to tell those who have been free with their advice and lessons that they might be better heard if they were agreeing, when they are able to do so, to commit their own troops to the field. Once in contact with the realities of the situation, they would undoubtedly better appreciate the fact that between negotiated peace and chaos there is no middle ground. Let us learn the lessons of this painful experience.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  8. “Europe’s success will serve as an example for other regions of the world as did in its day the Forty-eighth session - 29 September l993 23 reconciliation between France and Germany sought by General de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer. I have already spoken of the conflict raging in the former Yugoslavia. France has spared no effort to put an end to it. As you know, France initiated most of the Security Council resolutions designed to discourage or punish aggressors. Together with its partners, France provides an essential part of the humanitarian aid sent there. Its soldiers represent the largest of the contingents made available to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), and more than a dozen of them have paid for their generous presence there with their lives.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  9. “Whatever the present difficulties, whatever the prevailing scepticism, France will not falter in its resolve to build with its neighbours a strong, prosperous, democratic and generous Europe, capable of making its voice heard and of contributing to world peace. This is an irrevocable choice for us because the peoples of Europe need a plan that brings them together, and European unity is the only goal that measures up to the values they share. Moreover, the building of a united Europe is the only way to avert the dangers threatening our continent at this time: dangers arising from the resurgence of the most implacable forms of nationalism and from the persistence of unacceptable economic disparities.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  10. “The third principle is devotion to law and justice. Beyond its own interests, France aspires to help ensure that certain fundamental principles first inspired by France, among others, triumph throughout the world: the right of peoples to self-determination and security, human rights and the right to development. Finally, one last aspect of our diplomacy, in the service of the others, is France’s perseverance, and at times stubbornness. May I recall our resolve - despite obstacles - in opening up the path that would eventually lead to the restoration of peace in Cambodia, and our determination to see institutional legality restored in Haiti. These unchanging principles dictate the two main lines of the policy which my country hopes to implement on the international stage. Our ambition concerns Europe first of all.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  11. “The first principle is the desire for independence. France has amply demonstrated that it is ready to act in concert with others where the ends are genuinely collective. But, needless to say, it does so in complete sovereignty. Exercising freedom of judgement and choice, France refuses to follow the orthodoxy of the moment or to succumb to pressures resulting from relative material strengths. The second principle, shared by many in this Hall, is a commitment to our fundamental interests. Like every other State in this Organization, France has its own strategic, commercial and cultural interests which it seeks to preserve. While we are open to negotiation and to the mutual concessions it implies, we cannot be made to give up anything we consider to be an essential element of our security, our prosperity or our culture.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  12. “Other regions in Africa, Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus are falling or could fall victim to this new type of conflict, resulting from the break-up of States and the resurgence of nationalist, ethnic or religious passions. Elsewhere, States put under a sanctions regime by our Organization for failing to comply with the obligations of international law or with commitments they have made persist in refusing to take the measures that would permit them to regain their place in the international community. Almost everywhere, the proliferation of weapons is a fearsome factor for instability. In the face of the promises and dangers I have just outlined, France bases its foreign policy on a few guiding principles. Whether they are found reassuring or disturbing, I should like to recall them to the Assembly.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  13. “From us, it calls for collective effort, including financial effort, in order to translate this hope into reality as soon as possible. It also invites us to erase the aftermath of conflicts as reflected in past resolutions of this Assembly. But the end of what was for years called the balance of terror has also led to new kinds of uncertainty and disorder. Russia is going through a political and economic transition that could lead to serious internal difficulties, as the events of the past few days have shown. In that context, I should like to reaffirm France’s support for the process of democratization and reform courageously undertaken by President Yeltsin. In the former Yugoslavia war has been raging for two years, with its attendant death, suffering and destruction.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  14. “On behalf of my country, I should like to pay tribute to the men in the Middle East, in South Africa and in Cambodia who found the courage to take the path towards reconciliation and peace: Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk and all those, known and unknown, who accompanied or even preceded them on this courageous path. The agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) opens the way to the settlement of a conflict which some had despaired of seeing resolved, and makes it possible to conceive of a radically new future for the entire region. This revolution gives us new reason to believe in human will and encourages us never to consider the hope for peace as a chimera.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  15. “I should like first to say, Mr. President, that France is pleased to see the General Assembly meeting under your guidance this year. Your election is just testimony to the esteem in which the international community holds your country. It also affords us the opportunity to welcome the "silent revolution" that has been taking place in Latin America over the past few years, which has put many States back on the path of national reconciliation, democracy and economic development. 22 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session The year which is ending will have been as rich in promise as it has been fraught with danger. Conflicts once thought to be insoluble suddenly seem to be on track towards resolution.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)