73rd session of the general Assembly of the united Nations
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Source: Republic of France – Foreign Affairs in French
France is a founding member of the united nations at its creation in 1945.It enjoys a permanent seat on the security Council alongside the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and China. France is the 5th State contributor to both the united Nations regular budget as the budget of the peacekeeping operations to the peace.
France supports the reform of the uniesLes the recent crises have confirmed the centrality of the UN, but they have also reinforced the need to make the organization more efficient, and more representative of realities in the world today.Thus, France supports a vast field of reform launched by the Secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, in order to make the organization more efficient in its action, more transparent in its management and more reactive in response to crises.France defends an enlargement of the security Council in the framework of the negotiations on this issue to the general Assembly. In addition, it has proposed that in 2013 a supervision of the use of the veto in cases of mass atrocities in the form of a collective commitment and voluntary permanent members.Finally, France supports the reform of peacekeeping, initiated in 2018 by the Secretary-general for peacekeeping Operations to the peace (OMP) most efficient, well-funded, and thus more able to achieve their goals.
“I want a UN that is more responsible, more efficient, more agile, and I fully support the project of the united Nations secretary-general, his ambition, his desire to bring an organization to the scale of the challenges of the planet. “Emmanuel Macron, the president of the Republic (September 19, 2017)
Defence of Human rights : France particularly engagéeDans the field of Human rights, France has always played a special role. It inspired the universal Declaration of Human rights, signed in Paris on 10 December 1948, and whose 70th anniversary is celebrated in 2018.France is particularly committed to the universal abolition of the death penalty
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