France has taken the chair of the United Nations Security Council for the month of April, led by Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont.
According to Bonnafont, the agenda for the council is to guarantee that it covers the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, and Haiti.
Bonnafont emphasised that the Security Council’s most important challenge is whether their pronouncements regarding the peace talks in Ukraine would yield results.
“As president of the Security Council, we will be open to any suggestion by members so that what is going on right now between the United States, Ukraine, Russia, so that whatever happens is pushed in the right direction by the UN as mandatory.”
During the month, the Security Council is expected to meet for its quarterly open debate on the Middle East and Palestinian statehood. Bonnafort said the situation he situation is “very concerning,” he said, adding the Council is expected to act across a number of items including Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, more broadly speaking, Lebanon, Syria.
