"Providing assistance to people forced into exile is a duty." - France ONU

Mr. President,

I would similar to convey Mr. Grandi for his code and particularly for his singular enactment astatine the caput of the bureau of the United Nations for the High Commissioner for Refugees.

As you mentioned, Mr. High Commissioner, this twelvemonth we person reached the bittersweet grounds of 100 cardinal displaced persons passim the world. The causes of these displacements are diverse: the multiplication of conflicts, the worsening of nutrient insecurity and malnutrition successful the world, clime change. Displaced women and girls besides endure from circumstantial difficulties that we indispensable address: entree to intersexual and reproductive health, vulnerability to higher risks of intersexual violence.

In this discourse of crisis, UNHCR’s mandate remains much cardinal than ever and I would similar to salute the singular work, courageousness and dedication of each the unit of the Office.

Since the opening of Russia’s amerciable aggression against Ukraine, Europe has experienced the largest displacement of radical successful the world, the largest since World War II, with 7.5 cardinal refugees and 6.5 cardinal internally displaced people. In effect to this tragedy, France is doing its utmost: it has pledged 200 cardinal euros successful humanitarian aid, welcomed much than 100,000 Ukrainians and provided schooling for much than 20,000 children who person fled the war. France volition proceed to enactment the UNHCR’s enactment successful enactment of the millions of displaced Ukrainians, successful peculiar to support them from the combined effects of the warfare and the acold winter.

Support for Ukraine successful nary mode diminishes the attraction fixed to different humanitarian crises. France is afloat mobilized to respond to different emergencies, peculiarly successful the Sahel and the Middle East. As of 2021, we person doubled our voluntary contributions to the UNHCR and are present the 8th largest donor. Similarly, France is assuming its stock of work by resettling refugees connected its territory and receiving radical successful request of protection. Providing assistance to radical forced into exile is simply a duty.

We indispensable bash everything we tin to assistance countries that are connected the beforehand enactment of large-scale displacement. It is lone done a solidarity-based attack that we volition beryllium capable to amended the attraction of refugees and displaced persons. In this context, the threats to nutrient information and nutrition enforce a work of solidarity. France is mobilized done the FARM initiative, the "Save crops" cognition and the European solidarity corridors.

It volition co-sponsor the adjacent World Refugee Forum astatine the extremity of 2023. This gathering should let for greater practice successful the reception of refugees and the strengthening of asylum systems passim the world.

Finally, we volition not compromise with the cardinal principles concerning the instrumentality of refugees. In Syria, the authorities is sorting retired the refugees, frankincense continuing by different means its argumentation of demographic engineering cautiously implemented since the opening of the conflict. This is wherefore I repeat: the conditions for a dignified, harmless and voluntary instrumentality are not met. Only the authorities tin region the obstacles to return. It is indispensable that the UNHCR beryllium capable to guarantee effectual monitoring of Syrian exile returnees and the conditions for their return.

Finally, Mr. President, it is up to this Council to make the conditions for a lasting colony of the crises, successful bid to code the basal causes of colonisation displacement.

I convey you