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Franck Riester

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2021-02-17
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2021-06-29
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  1. “France, with 52 partners, proposes the establishment of a Programme of Action on cybersecurity by the United Nations. This new tool, which complements the new Open-ended Working Group, will allow a durable structure to be established. Its purpose will be to support capacity building and creating spaces for dialogue with civil society, researchers and private actors. France is open to dialogue with all States and stakeholders interested in refining and building on this action-oriented proposal. This collective commitment by multiple actors is essential. In cyberspace, States certainly have responsibilities that no other actor can presume to take on, but they cannot act alone. We must enter fully into this new form of diplomacy.”

    2021-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/621 (2021) · source

  2. “I would like to commend the recent success of the Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and the sixth Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace in the Context of International Security, which have adopted two balanced and useful consensus reports. France is ready to continue to participate constructively in multilateral discussions within the United Nations, including in the context of the new Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies, established by General Assembly resolution 75/240. Going forward, agreed norms and principles must above all be put into practice effectively.”

    2021-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/621 (2021) · source

  3. “International law, including the Charter of the United Nations, applies in full to cyberspace. This also implies respect for international humanitarian law by cyber operations conducted during armed conflict. Faced with the increasing number of threats in cyberspace and cyberattacks, Governments should respond by cooperation and law. For over a decade, France has played a pioneering role in various multilateral efforts. These efforts have led to the emergence of a framework for responsible behaviour by States in their use of ICT. This framework is based on international law, on a coherent set of non-binding norms of behaviour and on measures for transparency and trust. It has allowed progress to be made in mutual cooperation and understanding among States in cyberspace.”

    2021-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/621 (2021) · source

  4. “I am also thinking of the campaigns to manipulate information through the spread of “infodemics” or the increasing fragmentation of the Internet, practices contrary to democratic values. Actions in cyberspace have very real consequences that can prove to be severe in our lives and societies. The challenge for the coming century will be to build collective governance and regulation of cyberspace. We want neither a “digital Wild West”, nor a cloistered cyberspace. We have affirmed this in the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, as well as in the framework of the Group of Seven (G7) in the Dinard Declaration on the Cyber Norm Initiative. France is determined to build with its partners a cyberspace that is open, secure, stable, not fragmented, accessible and peaceful.”

    2021-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/621 (2021) · source

  5. “I wish to thank the Prime Minister of Estonia for this event. The Security Council oversees the maintenance of international peace and security and should be able to do so in cyberspace. Cyberspace is a place of opportunity but also of new threats. It has become a territory for strategic competition among powers. Malicious uses of information and communications technologies (ICT) are proliferating, by State and non-State actors alike. Over the past several months, in particular in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we have noted our increased dependence on these technologies. I have in mind first of all of the heinous cyberattacks using ransomware launched against hospitals and other critical infrastructure. I would like to express the full solidarity of France with the victims of those attacks.”

    2021-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/621 (2021) · source

  6. “Now more than ever we must support the multilateral system, first and foremost the United Nations, so that the global response to the health crisis is based on the values that are at the heart of the international system: international solidarity, cooperation and responsibility.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  7. “The COVAX facility also takes into account the difficulties faced by conflict zones by securing doses in the context of a humanitarian reserve. France also wishes to strengthen international solidarity regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine by setting up a community mechanism of donated doses, alongside its European Union partners. Finally, we must increase our efforts to bolster health systems in the most fragile States, particularly in Africa. Without resilient health systems that maintain and improve effective access to quality health services, we will not be able to fight the virus. France is mobilized in particular through the bilateral health assistance that it provides to African countries affected by the pandemic.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  8. “Supported since its inception by France and the European Union, the COVAX facility has secured access to 1.7 billion doses by 2021 for 92 low- and middle-income countries, out of a total of 2.3 billion doses for 191 countries. That mechanism will ensure a fair allocation of safe vaccines to be administered according to WHO recommendations. It is essential that access to the vaccine be based on a legitimate framework defined by WHO and not according to the law of the strongest. That is why the European Union supports COVAX and is contributing €853M to it. This issue of solidarity and equitable and universal access is at the heart of the charter for equitable access to COVID-19 health products, which France promotes and which was adopted by ACT Accelerator board members on 9 February.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  9. “Global access to the vaccine will be a test for a new multilateralism that brings together both States and businesses. We must encourage production partnerships between companies in order to meet the challenge of vaccine shortages as soon as possible. We must also ensure that vaccines are safe and effective, validated by competent and recognized regulatory authorities whose approval process guarantees the efficacy and safety of products. WHO plays that role as many countries lack the necessary expertise. The COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) facility has been mobilized to meet existing needs. The facility, within the ACT Accelerator, is led by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization in collaboration with WHO.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  10. “France believes that COVID-19 vaccination must be considered as a global public good so as to ensure equitable and universal access thereto, as the international community reaffirmed at the most recent World Health Assembly. Support for health multilateralism is crucial in order to overcome the pandemic. We must reaffirm the central role of the World Health Organization (WHO), the only universal health organization, in managing the crisis. We must also lend our full support to the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator initiative, which France initiated along with WHO and the European Commission so as to foster the development and production of and equitable and universal access to tools to combat COVID-19. That is why we support the British initiative for a Security Council resolution.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  11. “We must also think about how to include peacekeeping personnel in vaccination strategies. Safe and unimpeded humanitarian access is also necessary to facilitate the rollout of vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The pandemic has been accompanied by an increase in attacks against humanitarian and medical personnel, which is unacceptable. The perpetrators of such crimes must be brought to justice. Today’s meeting must also be an opportunity to highlight international solidarity in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. That is a sine qua non condition for an effective response to the crisis.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source

  12. “At the outset, I would like to thank the United Kingdom for organizing this meeting. I also thank the Secretary-General as well as Henrietta Fore, Seth Berkley and Jagan Chapagain for their briefings. The adoption, on July 1, 2020, of resolution 2532 (2020), at the initiative of France and Tunisia, marked an important milestone in our mobilization against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We must continue these efforts. In this regard, I should like to recall that the cessation of hostilities is an indispensable condition to effectively combat the pandemic. While there has been some progress, we have also seen that the situation remains very unstable in many countries. I would like to commend the outstanding work done by peacekeepers in extremely difficult conditions. More than ever, we must support peacekeeping operations.”

    2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source