Shadowing Practice: (Français) 🇫🇷 France - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 77th Session | #UNGA - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Assembly will hear and address by His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, a request protocol to escort His Excellency.
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On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honor to welcome His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic,
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and to invite him to address the Assembly.
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Mr. President of the General Assembly, Madam Secretary General Adjutant of the United Nations, Mesdames and Messieurs the Chiefs of the government, Mesdames and Messieurs the Ministries,
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Mesdames and Messieurs the Ambassadors, it is an honor for me to take the word to this Assembly to carry the voice of France.
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And now I think to those who have fought in my country, but also everywhere in the world, for precisely that France is free.
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Those who have estimated that the destiny of Europe could not be indifferent in other times, and that they come from Africa,
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from Asia, from the Océanie or from the Americas, because a part of their freedom, like the future of the world, is so fun.
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I think those who have written our chart and built the walls of this organization to conjure the worst,
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once it was at two times in the XXe siècle, inflicted to the whole humanity of endless suffering.
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We never forget this debt.
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She serves the interests of all our countries and shows us the path of peace.
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She reminds us that there are no other legitimate and durable power than the ones that nations decide sovereignly in our union.
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She tells us that the universality of our organisation is at the service of no of no oligarchies.
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Or, this heritage, our organisation, and our choices as nations,
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are today confronts to an alternative.
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We have today to make a simple choice, that is the war or the peace.
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The 24 February last, Russia, member permanent of the Security Council, has broken by an act of aggression,
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invasion and annexion our collective security.
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It has deliberately violated the Charte of Nations Unies and the principle of sovereignty sovereignty of the États.
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Dès le 16 mars, la Cour internationale de justice a déclaré l'agression russe illégale et a exigé le retrait de la Russie.
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La Russie a décidé, ce faisant, d'ouvrir la voie à d'autres guerres d'annexion,
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aujourd'hui en Europe, but maybe tomorrow in Asia, Africa or Latin America.
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We can say everything we want today.
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I've heard a lot of debates, I've heard a lot of words.
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It is one thing sure and certain.
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When I talk about you, there are Russian troops in Ukraine and, in my knowledge, there are no Ukrainian troops.
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It's a state of fact and we must all look at it.
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Plus cette guerre dure, plus elle devient menaçante pour la paix en Europe, mais aussi pour celle du monde.
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Elle nous conduit vers une conflictualité élargie, permanente, où la souveraineté et la sécurité de chacun ne dépend plus que de rapports de force,
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de taille des armées, de la solidité des alliances ou des intentions des groupes armés et des milices.
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Où ceux qui se considèrent comme forts cherchent à soumettre par tous les moyens which they consider as weak.
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This to which we have assisted since the last 24th of February is a return to the imperialism and colonies.
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France refuses to seek obstinately peace.
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On the right of our position is clear, and it is in service of this position
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that I assume the dialogue carried out with Russia I will continue to assume that I will continue to assume the war.
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Because it is so that we will be able to find peace.
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We will be able to find peace in the years and months that have preceded the conflict.
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We will be able to find peace in the 24th of February.
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We will be able to find peace in the Ukrainian community
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that we bring to the Ukrainian people to exercise his right of legitimate defense and preserve his freedom.
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The search of peace by our condemnation of invasion of a sovereign state, of violation of the principles of our collective security,
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of crimes of war committed by Russia on the Ukrainian soil, and by our refusal of impunity.
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The international justice should establish the crimes and judge the coupable.
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the search of the peace, finally, by our desire to endiguate the geographic and intensity of the war.
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It is to help us to support the international agency
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of the atom energy efforts to prevent the consequences of the war on the security and security of the war, as we will do tomorrow,
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with the Ukrainians, whose sovereignty on their centrales would not be discussed.
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We have obtained an mission of the agency to get on the ground and establish a relationship in a way independent.
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We work together to prevent the risk of an accident whose consequences would be devastating.
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We all know here that only an agreement respecting international rights will allow the peace.
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A negotiation will not be possible if,
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sovereignly, Ukraine wants and Russia accept it.
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We know all that a negotiation will not be able if the sovereignty of Ukraine is respected,
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its own territory, its own security, its own security.
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The Russia must now hear that she would impose a little bit of a desire by military means,
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even in joining with cynicism,
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the simulacres of referendum in the territories bombarded and now occupied.
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It is a problem to say to the members of the security council and to the members of the Security Council
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to say, oh, it's clear, and members of this Assembly to support us on this path of peace.
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I call this tribune, members of the United Nations to act so that Russia will return to the war,
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measure the cost for herself and for us all, and put a term to her aggression.
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It is not here to choose a camp between the East and the West, nor between the North and the South.
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It is the responsibility of all those who are attached to the respect of the chart
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and our most precious bien, the peace. Because beyond the war,
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it is a risk of division of the world which is due to the direct and indirect consequences of conflict.
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I know that in this Assembly, many nourrissent a feeling of injustice face on the energy,
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economic, economic consequences of the war led by Russia.
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I know that some countries here represent are also in a form of neutrality regarding this war.
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But I will say with the most great netted today, who would like to be able to fight against the non-aligners and refuse to express clearly,
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is wrong and takes a historical responsibility.
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The non-aligners was a fight for peace.
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The non-aligners were a fight for the power of the United States, for the territorial integrity of each one.
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The non-aligners were a fight against the people.
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Those who are today serve, even though they, or secretly, with a certain complicity, the cause of a new imperialism,
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of a contemporary cynicism which disaggregate our international order, without which the peace is possible.
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The Russia is employed to install the idea, today, of a double standard.
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But the war in Ukraine should not be a conflict indifference for no one.
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It is close for the Europeans who have chosen to support Ukraine without entering war with Russia.
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It is far away for many of you, but we have all the consequences directs.
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And we have all a role to play to put a term, because we pay all the price.
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By its foundation, this war launched by Russia is a big issue of our organisation,
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a big issue of the only international order possible.
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the only to be able to guarantee the peace, that is to be the respect of national sovereignty and of the intangibility of the borders.
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In this regard, we don't know why and consequences,
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who can defend the idea that the invasion of Ukraine does not justify any sanctions?
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Who of you could consider that The day when something like something, made by a more powerful neighbor,
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the silence of the region and the world would be the best of the answers.
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Who can support it?
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Who can believe that it would be worth the war to win this war for
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that we don't have to pass anything else?
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Nothing.
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The contemporary imperialism is not European or Western.
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It takes form a territorial invasion, adossés à une guerre hybride mondialisée qui utilise le prix de l'énergie,
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la sécurité alimentaire, la sûreté nucléaire,
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l'accès à l'information et les mouvements de population comme des armes de division et de destruction.
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C'est en cela que cette guerre porte atteinte à nos souverainetés à tous.
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Aussi, la France se tiendra aux côtés des peuples libres des Nations unies pour faire face aux conséquences consequences of the conflict, as to all the inequalities who believe in the law,
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in the way of the logic of bloc or exclusive alliances.
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Because beyond the direct consequences of the war, the risk of today's today is that of a new part of the world.
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Some would make us think that there would be, one of the West, who would defend the values of its interests in the service of its interests,
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and the other side, the rest of the world who has suffered
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and seeks to cooperate in supporting the war or in turning the gaze.
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I recuse this division for at least two reasons.
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The first, by principle, and I just mentioned it, our organization has a value of universal values.
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We don't let ourselves not to the idea sourde that there would be something regional, adaptable.
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Notre organisation a bien des valeurs universelles, et la division face à la guerre en Ukraine est simple.
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Êtes-vous pour ou contre la loi du plus fort, le non-respect de l'intégrité territoriale des pays et de la souveraineté nationale ?
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Êtes-vous pour ou contre l'impunité ?
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Je ne conçois aucun ordre international ni paix durable
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qui ne puisse être fondé sur le respect des peuples on the respect of the people and the principle of responsibility.
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So yes, our values are universelles, and it's for that they never must be in service of a power who violates these principles.
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And when, in the last years, we have taken the liberties with these same values, we have wronged.
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But this would not be justified to throw to the foot what we have collectively built after World War II.
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And when I hear Russia say that they are prepared to work at new cooperation, at a new international order,
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without aegémonie, the best thing to do, but on what principle?
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The invasion of the neighbors?
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The non-respect of the borders of the one who doesn't like it?
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What is this order?
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Who is today hegémonic, if it's Russia?
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What do we propose?
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What do we want?
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Quel rêve vant-on sur la bonne foi de certaines et certains ici ?
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Rien qui ne tienne longtemps.
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Ne cédons pas au cynisme qui désagrège l'ordre qui nous a construit et permet seuls de tenir la stabilité internationale,
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car ces valeurs qui sont les nôtres, le respect de la souveraineté nationale, de l'intégrité des frontières, je le dis,
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nous avons eu tort à chaque fois que nous avons pris des licences avec elles.
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but these are the values that we have built after the Second World War, after the colonialism.
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We refuse to make history because today we are touched other geographies.
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And we don't know that.
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The second reason of my opposition to this tentative of partition of the world is pragmatic.
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In fact, behind the nations of the divisions, there is a tentative of partition of the world which is a strong tensions between the United States and China.
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And it is, in my eyes, a funest mistake for us all.
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Because this would not be a new war.
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Several puissance of disand and disand and disand joues of this period to multiply the regional conflicts,
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reprendre the path of nuclear proliferation and to make the collective collapse.
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I think we must do everything to do to make this new division not come out.
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Because our challenges are more and more and urgent and need new cooperation.
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Look at Pakistan.
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One third of the country is under the water, more 1400 deaths, 1300 deaths, millions of people in emergency situations.
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Look at the Africa of the world, the worst sea for 40 years, and a season of rain will be worse.
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Half of humanity lives in the climate zone.
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Our ecosystems reach the non-retour point.
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Look, in Somalia, in Yemen, in Sudan, in Afghanistan, the famine comes back.
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The food crisis hits everywhere, and the most difficult, the most.
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345 millions de personnes dans le monde sont en situation de faim aiguë, dont 153 millions d'enfants.
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55 guerres civiles sont en cours sur notre planète.
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100 millions de personnes sont déplacées, alors qu'entre 1990 et 2015, 137 000 personnes échappaient chaque jour à l'extrême pauvreté.
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345 millions pourraient y tomber d'ici 2030 dans les pays touchés par les conflits.
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Face aux crises, aux dérèglements climatiques, à la pandémie, à la montée des prix de l'alimentation,
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les plus vulnérables sont toujours les plus touchés.
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Les menaces sont toujours là, en plus de tout cela.
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Les terrorismes qui touchent, entre autres, le Sahel comme le Moyen-Orient,
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la prolifération nucléaire en Iran comme en Corée du Nord, que nous n'avons pas réussi à endiguer.
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Telles are our urgent.
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And the cavalcade description that I just wanted to make is not exhaustive, but they are every time where the result of deep defiance of our international system,
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which has been accompanied by the benefits of the mondialization, but has not been in danger of these fractures,
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these threats, these barriers, or the consequences of our division between us.
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Our common responsibility is rather to help the most fragile and the most touched to face all these challenges.
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Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the India, has had the right to say, the time is not at war.
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It is not at the revenge against the Occident, nor at the opposition of the West against the rest.
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It is the collective of our sovereign and sovereign countries and is faced with the contemporary challenges.
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That's why it is urgent to build a new contract between the North and the South,
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a effective and respectful for the alimentation, for the climate and biodiversity, for education.
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The time is not at the block, but to build a concrete coalition,
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which allows us to concilify legitimate and common interests.
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Face the global food crisis, France has already doubled its funding to the World Food Program.
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We have built, with the European Union,
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the solidarity corridors, which have allowed to evacuate more than 10 million tons of céréales by the way terrestrial, since the spring last spring.
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This was ultimately completed by the 22 July, which was made by the Secretary General of the United Nations,
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which has allowed to evacuate 2,4 million tonnes by the Black Sea and which continues.
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We have brought the initiative Farm, which allows to provide vulnerable countries vulnerable to low price,
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without political conditions, and to invest in the agricultural production of countries who want to leave the independence.
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I also announce that France will also be able to evacuate the Ukrainian blood to the destination of Somalia,
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in relation to the World Health Organization.
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We will do it with solidarity, efficacy and demand of transparency.
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Tomorrow, we will reunite the African Union, the United Nations, the World Economic Organization,
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the FMI, the development and the European Commission to build a viable mechanism for access to the Anglais for Africa,
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in addition to the initiatives of the Secretary General on this point.
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On the climate and biodiversity, in a few weeks, we will be able to find out at COP27 in Egypt.
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Soyons clear, here also, on what is just transition.
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Our first collective combat is the eradication of carbon.
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The crisis does not make us lose the cap.
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If we don't leave it, we will surpass more than the predictions that we say 2 degrees Celsius.
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I'm ready to invest in the financials of digital jet, like we have done with Africa in the South, it is a few months ago.
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And we have to continue this logic.
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But the Chinese and the great emerging must take a clear decision to the COP.
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It is implying.
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We must build, at this point, around the great emerging, coalitions of state actors, with our great financial institutions international,
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to build a complete solution of energy production and change models of production industrial, which will only allow these transitions.
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Then, the G7 must take an example.
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The countries the richest must accelerate their carbon program, but also make efforts to sobriety and share the green technologies.
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You know in the matter, we can count on the European Union.
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I also believe that it is necessary to recognize that for the poor countries,
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a difficult to act in the same time for the struggle against the poverty and the acceleration of the transition.
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We can't ask the same thing to the South Africa, where 600 millions of people who have no access to electricity and to the great emitters.
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That's why the financial solidarity,
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the technological solidarity of the richest people should be strengthened on the climate against the poorest countries.
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We should be able to provide funding, to provide solutions and to accelerate this agenda, as we have done before the pandemic,
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but in a way even stronger, more effective, more resolute.
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We also have to protect ourselves our carbon-puit and our treasures of biodiversity.
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The France will be able to join the Costa Rica the Conference of the United Nations for the Ocean in 2025.
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Let's do the COP21 of the Ocean. On the health.
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We must learn from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In this regard, we must recognize that our first line of defense, are the systems and the health personnel in the most fragile countries.
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I will insist on this crucial point during the Reconstruction of the World Fund for the Sida, the tuberculosis and the paludism,
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which France will remain one of the first contributors.
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We also have to ensure that the OMS puts well in place the quick alert systems
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that we need to prevent the spread of other viruses.
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And we have to treat together, human and animal health.
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This is the sense of the initiative of the only health initiative that France has with several others.
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As we do with the World Partnership for Education, We continue our efforts to make children a school after a pandemic which is deprived of the pandemic.
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We are going to be able to fight against all the inequalities and work for our future.
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You see, on all these issues, it's more cooperation, these are partners between the West and the South, between the North and the South that we need to develop.
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It's more engagement of our great institutions.
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But all of this is the inverse of a division that we want to install.
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Who, during the pandemic, was there?
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Who proposed funding for climate change?
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Not those who today propose a new order international and who didn't have a vaccine that works,
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who were little solidaires and who didn't bring anything to climate.
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Face all these challenges, who are ours collectively, We must be more solid,
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cooperate more, but in no case ceder to the waves that are not anywhere.
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To arrive, we must also be lucid on the situation of the poorest countries and the average countries,
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whether in Africa, on the South America continent, in Asia or in the Pacific.
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The pandemic has still accrued the inequalities.
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The war and its consequences are the difficulties for many of these countries.
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The G20 must therefore have to take the objective that it gave last year, to mobilize 100 milliards of dollars to a law of tirages.
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But we must go further and further forward.
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First, on the basis of these emissions of law of tirages specials, we must put in the work what we are engaged.
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Tant of countries, in particular in Africa, they haven't yet seen this money.
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And we can't explain that a Parlement's fault, that a rule that prevents them.
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It's impossible.
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We will arrive too late, but we have to go further, because the difficulty is even bigger.
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So we have to pass 30% of the allocation of our rights
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to profit of the African countries and the most poor countries everywhere.
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And we have, with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to re-engager our devices which are no longer adapted to the current context.
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The rules that we apply today are the rules of the 1980s.
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The situation of our planet, post-Covid-19, with an accelerated climate change and an effusion of biodiversity,
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and in reason of the war, accroît nos exigences de solidarité.
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Il nous faut un nouveau pacte financier avec le Sud.
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Voilà notre vraie ligne de front, celle qui doit nous rassembler, non pas contre un ennemi commun, non pas contre des histoires fausses ou des révisions historiques,
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mais pour la planète que nous habitons tous et pour l'égalité des chances à l'échelle de l'humanité.
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Ce combat, c'est le nôtre, c'est celui qui nous réunit tous.
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It is simply to make a little more effort, to be able to agree with our agreements, to be respectful and respectful each other.
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But this fight, which is true, if we are not able to lead together, will be the source of all the fractures and conflicts to come.
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I invite all those who want to build this new contract with us
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to come to the Paris Forum for the Paaix next 11 November, to prepare the G20 of Bali and to advance together,
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without ever refusing to give values and to the principles that guide us.
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Allons to the essential.
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We do not want to be fragmented and to the rise of the world
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and to the rise of the threats to the peace.
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We do not allow that the crisis is addition, that the conflict without solutions are multiplied and that they are massive weapons of destruction.
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These are so many risks that we will not be able to handle more in the future without associating the regional puissance.
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It is precisely this work of association of regional puissance that we want to do in the Middle East,
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ensuring the following of the Baghdad conference that we have held in 2019, for the stability of Iraq, for the Lebanon and all the region.
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The members of the P5 are no longer the ones to have their words to say.
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And if they have, and they have it, it can't work anymore
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if we are able to do more in order to be able to do more on international consensus necessary to peace.
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That's why I wish we finally engage the reform of the Security Council,
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to be more representative, to be able to support new members permanent and remains capable of playing all his role
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in limiting the recourse of veto in case of mass crime.
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What we need to do together is to build peace and international contemporary peace, in service of our objectives.
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On this path, the United Nations will be able to count on France.
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Sur ce chemin, chaque pays ici présent pourra indéfectiblement compter sur la France.
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Je vous remercie.
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request protocol to escort His Excellency.
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We have heard the last speaker for this meeting.
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The fifth plenary meeting will continue the general debate at 3pm.
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The meeting is adjourned.
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Words & Idioms Worth Stealing
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- Collective security: A system where nations work together to protect each other. Example: "We must uphold collective security to prevent conflicts."
- Legitimate and durable power: Authority that’s both lawful and long-lasting. Example: "Democracy builds legitimate and durable power."
- Rapports de force (pronounced "rah-por duh forss"): Power dynamics. Example: "Negotiations often depend on rapports de force."
- Impunity: Freedom from punishment. Example: "We must end impunity for war crimes."
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