And they will educate young citizens. United Nations General Assembly: Speech by President Emmanuel Macron (25.09.18) France and the UK host High-Level UNGA Event on the Rohingya Crisis: Joint Statement (24.09.18) Iran - Implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: Joint Ministerial Statement (24.09.18) Here too, it is a battle which must bring us together. It’s today, it’s now! French President elect Emmanuel Macron celebrates on stage during his victory rally near the Louvre museum after results in the 2017 presidential election in Paris, France, May 7, 2017. So yes, in every school, in every collège, in every lycée, we’ll give teachers back the power to “make republicans,” restore their rightful position and authority. I propose, on the contrary, that we establish a collective mechanism for working together on what we’re doing, in each of our countries, to reduce inequalities. And we have made progress: human rights have spread, trade and prosperity have been expanded, poverty has been reduced. Then let’s not be in fashion any more, because we owe it to those who have enabled us to be seated here, because never forget that the genocides that led to your being here today were fuelled by the language we are growing accustomed to, because they were fuelled by the demagoguery we applaud, because we are currently seeing this international law and all forms of cooperation crumbling, as if it were business as usual – out of fear, out of complicity, because it looks good! It is with that continent. Emmanuel Macron has announced a law against religious “separatism” aimed at freeing Islam in France from “foreign influences”. That is what we did in Paris on 12 December last year, with many of you, at the One Planet Summit, with concrete commitments and initial results. The problem wasn’t France's laicite model, said Macron, it was that Muslims, many who are third or fourth generation. That is the point of the process launched by the African Union to better shoulder its responsibilities through African peace operations. Perhaps some of them will also become teachers. Samuel Paty was the victim of a fatal conspiracy of folly, lies, conflation, hatred of the other, hatred of what we are deep down, existentially. By Connexion journalist. We must also fight passionately against gender-linked inequalities. He wasn’t an enemy of the religion they exploit: he had read the Koran, he respected his students whatever their beliefs and was interested in Muslim civilization. We will ensure that by the end of the year at this General Assembly, two-thirds of its members can support the suspension of the right of veto in the event of mass atrocities. I call on everyone here to mobilize. Let’s implement the protocol against HFC gases, which could enable us to reduce the planet’s average temperature by 1ºC by 2050. If we don’t, what kind of world are we setting up for ourselves? It is not just on that continent that we will collectively win or lose our great battle against inequalities. I hope that by the end of the year a resolution can be adopted to that effect. And there is no need to look for those responsible for this disintegration; they are here, in this Assembly. I want us and our counterparts together to shoulder new responsibilities, in order to mark out a path at the Forum for specific actions to promote peace. It must provide an opportunity, united by the tragedies of the 20th century, to renew and revitalize our solemn promise to protect future generations from the scourge of war. “I’d like my life and death to be of some use,” he once said. All together we are strong in the face of terrorism when states can count on their own forces to guarantee their security, and also when that security is based on regional and international solutions, according to the principle I have just elucidated. A survival-of-the-fittest approach, pressure from a single stakeholder? This evening I want to talk about your son, I want to talk about your brother, your uncle, the man you loved, your father. Paris, 27 August 2019. We will not disavow the cartoons, the drawings, even if others recoil. Begin each day anew. Nor do I believe the lies of those who claim, for example, that in Europe and elsewhere they will be stronger if they take shelter behind closed borders. There is a trade war, so let’s reduce workers’ rights, let’s reduce taxes even more, let’s fuel inequalities in order to try to tackle our trade difficulties. On the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Declaration, we will recall that human rights are not a cultural phenomenon, revocable values or options, but a body of law sanctified by international treaties to which the members of this Assembly freely consented. That is the point of the initiatives being taken in the Lake Chad region, which are also being shepherded by Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon and supported by the African Union. And though this task today may seem titanic, especially where violence, intimidation and sometimes resignation take over, it’s more essential, more relevant than ever. I’ve said what I had to say. These commitments must be fulfilled under the auspices of the United Nations, with close cooperation from the African Union. The French president tripled down on his long-standing Europhile commitments. We will work at the G7 to ensure that the commitments made at COP21 are revised upwards, and if one of the members doesn’t want to move forward, we will move forward even so, going to seek new coalitions, new formats, because the G7’s remit is to remain a united group of countries committed to democracy. nearly two billion people between 10 and 24 years old today, 90% of whom live in developing countries. When it comes to the great digital transformation, here too it is our duty to stand together to establish contemporary rules that will make it possible to reconcile the development of artificial intelligence with our ethical rules, to guide the digital transformation of our societies. This evening I want to talk to you about Samuel Paty. Long live the Republic, long live France. These things form a triptych on which contemporary solutions are built. I won’t talk about those who have made us associate his name with barbarians; they don’t deserve it. I believe in a third way forward for us, undoubtedly the most difficult, undoubtedly the most challenging, requiring us to forge together a new model, to find together a new world balance. We will continue this fight for freedom and reason that you now personify because we owe it to you, because we owe it to ourselves, because in France, sir, the Enlightenment will never grow dim. In a keenly awaited speech, Mr Macron said a minority of France's estimated six million Muslims were in danger of forming a "counter-society". First, the speech involves a level of plain … I do not believe this. Let’s set ourselves the goal of concluding in 2020 a plan for an ambitious global pact for the environment, and making the Beijing COP on biodiversity and the IUCN World Conservation Congress in France in 2020 decisive steps. He who gave himself the task of “making republicans”. The new equilibrium that we must create must be based on new forms of regional and international cooperation and will, I believe, be based on three principles: firstly, respect for sovereignty, which is at the very foundation of our charter; secondly, the strengthening of our regional cooperation; and thirdly, the provision of more robust international guarantees. It is not up to us to decide for the Syrian people, but to develop the ways and means to implement this method that I have just described and therefore to develop a solution that is backed, not just by the guarantor states in the Astana process, but by other states in the region and the international community through the Small Group, under the coordination of the United Nations and the special representative of the Secretary-General, in order to resolve the humanitarian crisis on the one hand and, on the other hand, to build an inclusive, lasting political solution through constitutional reform and the holding of free elections. Mr Secretary-General, Secondly, because our collective capacity to respond to crises is still all too often hampered by divisions in the Security Council. Women and girls are the first to be affected by poverty, conflict, the consequences of global warming; they are the first victims of sexist and sexual violence, which too often prevents them from moving around freely, working or choosing what happens to their bodies. So why was Samuel killed? Those who undermine collective action are only exposing themselves to a greater degree. Not at all – it is utopian, there is no such thing. I know that in a world where information clashes, where we have entered a world of showbiz, in a sense, freed of inhibitions, and where saying the worst things means being in fashion, making the news; I know that denouncing consequences whose causes one has cherished can be a crowd-pleaser; I know that championing cooperation and multilateralism may no longer be in fashion. We have a joint responsibility for peace; it cannot be delegated, cannot be refused, cannot be pre-empted. France will continue to exercise global leadership in this battle, along with everyone who so wishes. And in no way will I yield the principle of the sovereignty of peoples to nationalists or to those in the international community who advocate retreating inwards, who want to use the sovereignty of peoples to attack the universality of our values - their strength is what keeps us all here in this room! French President Emmanuel Macron is facing backlash in some Muslim countries in response to remarks he made in support of free speech after a teacher was beheaded by an Islamist. Mr President of the United Nations General Assembly, It’s a moral aberration as much as a reality which is untenable. All rights reserved - Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs - 2021, United Nations General Assembly: Speech by President Emmanuel Macron (25.09.18), Directory and Addresses of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Discover the Ministry (history, virtual tour, etc. No, on the contrary, that’s precisely why Samuel Paty was killed. Isolationism, protectionism. The military engagement of certain countries has allowed the regime to re-establish itself, resulting in crimes for which the perpetrators will one day be held accountable. You see, my dear friends, I believe deeply in the sovereignty of peoples, which today is strong and present, and demanded by all of our people on the international stage. It is unacceptable for 45% of greenhouse gas emissions to be produced by 10% of the planet’s richest inhabitants. The great battle of our forerunners was the fight for peace, which is still incumbent upon us. He believed in knowledge. The active efforts the G7 has already begun to make under Canada’s presidency will have to allow further progress. Let’s sign no more trade agreements with powers that don’t respect the Paris Agreement. Otherwise there will ultimately be only two solutions. As I said a year ago, we should not exacerbate regional tensions, but rather propose a broader agenda that will make it possible to address all nuclear, ballistic and regional concerns caused by Iranian policies, through dialogue and multilateralism. It’s we, the leaders, who are responsible. Ambassadors’ conference – Speech by M. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic. They no longer even have names. Common rules adapted to today’s reality that will make it possible to establish the conditions for equal and fair competition, and not, under any circumstances, the bilateral treatment of all our trade disputes or a new form of protectionism. What does this lead to? But we will all have to provide an explanation to our peoples and our own children for this growing number of disasters. The Syrian people have tragically paid the price, and there can be no victors in a Syria in ruins. And it’s the responsibility of France and all its European partners, the European Union, to be at the forefront of this battle, to build this new contemporary humanism which must not yield an inch to temptations of self-absorption or to naivety, and at the same time build, as mediating powers, these new rules of the international order. The current status quo enables the militias, the traffickers to gain ground, destabilizing the entire region. IGF 2018 Speech by French President Emmanuel Macron Thank you, Secretary General, dear António, both for your speech, your welcome here today, but also your speech yesterday at the Paris Peace Forum, where you spoke about these same issues, Thank you, UNESCO Director-General, The speech is a tradition that every president of the Fifth Republic has observed and a milestone in their presidencies. Here in France, we love our nation, its geography, landscapes and history, its culture and metamorphoses, its spirit and heart. This is why I call on you all to become part of this global drive for education. Six hundred and twenty million more children in the world need to be provided with schooling between now and 2030, including 444 million Africans. So I propose that the international institutions – the United Nations but also, of course, the OECD – support us in establishing this mechanism, for which the G7 will have to be the driving force. A survival-of-the-fittest approach does not protect any group of people against any kind of threat, whether chemical or nuclear. We will support the enlargement of the Security Council in its members’ two categories so that its composition reflects contemporary balances and it is strengthened as a place of consultation and not obstruction. Why? We’re told that solutions exist but that funding isn’t up to the mark. Let’s more heavily mobilize sovereign funds, which finance this low-carbon policy strategy. President Emmanuel Macron is to address the nation in a televised speech tonight at 20:00 on the Covid-19 situation in France, the second time in less than a week. As you see, I believe very strongly that in the face of these rifts, these challenges in the contemporary world order, we can build a new language of action and we must, at the same time, attack the underlying causes that contemporary inequalities represent. On Friday evening, at first I believed it to be a random act of madness, a senseless arbitrary act: another victim of gratuitous terrorism. 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Only collective action makes it possible to preserve the sovereignty and equality of the people who have given us a mandate. Ladies and gentlemen, at a time when our collective system is breaking up, I must say we have never needed it so much. $7.5 billion has now been allocated to 500 projects that were jointly defined with all the relevant nations and the partners in the Sahel Alliance. In a speech delivered at Burkina Faso’s University of Ouagadougou in 2017, Macron invited Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou to lead a special project to examine ways to mobilize French … Because it is indeed today in Africa that we find the most fervent champions of multilateralism and regional integration, because our African partners have clearly understood that together we will be in a position to tackle our common challenges. Heads of state and government, Finally, we must fight – with a passionate sense of urgency – against environmental inequalities. On your behalf, I send the world's nations the fraternal greetings of France. So I say to you very clearly: the century which has begun is watching us, and our children are waiting for us! In a few weeks’ time, on 11 November 1918, the Paris Peace Forum will provide an opportunity for a surge in intelligence and courage in order to regain what keeps us here together. He loved relaying to his students and loved ones a passion for knowledge and the taste of freedom through books. It in no way addresses deep inequalities. Seventy years after the adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights by this Assembly in Paris, cultural, historical, and religious relativism is now calling into question the foundations of their universality. Mistrust in our societies and the temptation of self-absorption are fuelled by this. No! On Friday, Samuel Paty became the face of the Republic, of our determination to disrupt terrorists, to curtail Islamists, to live as a community of free citizens in our country; he became the face of our determination to understand, to learn, to continue to teach, to be free, because we will continue to do so, sir. Therefore, in Syria, we are continuing the fight against Islamist terrorism. No, we must act! Prince Charles impressed today after he delivered a speech entirely in French as Emmanuel Macron awarded London the Legion D’Honneur. After all, he wasn’t the Islamists’ main target, he was simply teaching. It’s time our world stopped making women victims and at last gave them their rightful place – the one where they are leaders too! They divide the faithful and the unbelievers. Do we believe we can build stability, balance, over the long term, given such a situation? This is also what we’ll have to do at social level, next year, during the centenary of the International Labour Organization. Only together can we effectively combat all these inequalities, which have each fractured our societies. Then let’s go and find it; let’s innovate. But I do believe in universal values, and on this point we must not back down, it is not the same thing! We will defend the freedom that you taught so well, and we will strongly proclaim the concept of laïcité [secularism] (3). Fifty percent of our development aid will be devoted to projects to reduce gender inequalities. Speech of French President Emmanuel Macron at the 74th United Nations General Assembly (New York, September 24, 2019) This evening I won’t talk about the string of terrorists, their accomplices and all the cowards who committed this attack and made it possible. All those who were marginalized and frustrated by the humiliations they had suffered harboured a despair whose price we are collectively paying today. His apartment was a library. It is in the Libyan people’s interest and in that of their neighbours, the Europeans and the international community, which must unite around these goals in order to move forward. First of all, revise both our trading and social rules; rather than pursuing protectionism, we must all work together to radically revise the WTO rules. Firstly, because it has failed in part to regulate itself. I can’t get used to these pages being torn every day, these betrayals of our history! Let’s resolve the crises! Because after a form of superpower model, we have been experiencing for several years now a new form of global instability, marked by the return of multiple powers. In a speech to mark 150 years of the French Republic, President Emmanuel Macron has emphasised the need to protect the country, which he qualified as "fragile". We have made progress on reducing inequalities between our countries, and we have given ourselves the framework for this with the 2030 Agenda for [Sustainable] Development; but the battle is not behind us, it is far from over. What will make it possible to resolve the crisis between Israel and Palestine? However, two things are clear. And throughout their lives, the hundreds of young people you educated will practise the critical thinking they learned from you. And those people who forget that we owe them all an answer are wrong because they’re preparing for crises tomorrow, the day after, because they’ll leave their successors, because we’ll leave our children in a much worse situation than the one we’re in right now. Links in a never-ending chain, they will increase understanding of our nation, our values and our Europe. We will remember that our freedoms will endure only if we end hatred and violence, only if we respect others. It’s at the United Nations first that I want to say this inequalities agenda will be central to the next G7. They just didn’t get it. The heralded breakdown of the Paris Agreement has been averted, because we’ve managed to remain united, despite the American decision to withdraw from it. Inside and outside school, the pressures, the abuse of ignorance and obedience which some would like to establish have no place in our country. I do not believe this because we are currently experiencing a crisis of the effectiveness and principles of our contemporary world order which will not be able to get back on track or return to how it functioned before. After studying history in Lyon and thinking of becoming a researcher, he took the path you, his parents – a primary school teacher and a headteacher in Moulins – mapped out, becoming an “educational researcher” as he liked to define himself, becoming a teacher. They are fuelled by all these inequalities we have allowed to emerge and by our collective inability to address them effectively. I know, my dear friends, that many people may be tired of multilateralism. Our responsibility in the 21st century is to end these kinds of violence, from harassment on the street to femicide. So Ferdinand Buisson’s words echo back: “To make a republican,” he wrote, “it is necessary to give every human being, no matter how young or meek, the idea that he must think on his own, that he must be faithful or obedient to no one, that it is up to him to seek truth and not receive it ready-made from a teacher, guide or leader of any sort.” “Making republicans” was what Samuel Paty fought for. The other response would be to say it is the rules that don’t work. Now we must tackle the deep causes of our imbalances, we must look together at the weaknesses of our international order and – beyond the crises I’ve just mentioned – look at the deep inequalities that have set in. These deep inequalities that we have been unable to resolve. This is why I have committed France to this battle to such an extent, it’s why I place so much emphasis on teacher training, vocational education and educational equality between boys and girls. It is these initial results that we must consolidate. France will be there to ensure the world does not forget that the din of nationalism always leads to the abyss, that democracies are weak if they lack courage in defending their principles, and that accumulated resentment, combined with a fragile international system, can lead twice in the space of a human life to a global unleashing of violence. Our humanitarian funding will go up 40%. It is unacceptable not to enjoy the same opportunities depending on the country you are born in, not to be able to go to school in some countries because you are a woman, not to have access to certain basic care. Wearing a white medical mask, French President Emmanuel Macron went ahead with a planned speech by videoconference Thursday, hours after testing positive for … He who shows the greatness of thought teaches respect and shows what civilization is. We will defend international humanitarian law by supporting staff who take every risk to help civilians on the ground, by negotiating, one by one, humanitarian access in every theatre. Like you, we will relentlessly seek to understand, and to gain an even better understanding of the things they’d like to take away from us. This is what truly respecting Syrian sovereignty means! 16 March 2020 By Macron said there were “two kings in this system—shareholders and consumers,” with workers and the planet paying a price. The only effective way to manage the migratory flows affecting all of our continents in an orderly, controlled fashion is to create the conditions for a type of international mobility that is freely chosen, not imposed; to work together, whether we are countries of origin, of transit or of destination, to tackle the deep causes of such migration, especially when it is imposed; to dismantle networks of traffickers, which are the worst scourge in this situation; and to protect our borders in a respectful way while ensuring compliance with international law, and in particular the unconditional protection of those who have the right to asylum. That is not true. More than anything else, Samuel Paty loved books, knowledge. You can see that in each of these crises, the answer was not to leave states on their own, not to take their place or to tell them from here what the law or solution is, but rather to conscientiously articulate the principle of the sovereignty of peoples, of regional cooperation and of a true commitment by the international community.