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STORY: UNGA80 / FRANCE
TRT: 03:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
1. Med shot, exterior, United Nations
2. Various shots, French President’s arrival, Brazilian President, delegates
2. Wide shot, French President walking up to rostrum, General Assembly Hall
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“This organization is irreplaceable. That is why its fiercest critics are also those who want to change the rules of the game in favor of their own domination, more interested in carving up the world than in reaching the compromises necessary for the common good.”
5. Wide shot, French President at rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Let us support the International Criminal Court in its fight against impunity. Let us ensure that the orders of the International Court of Justice are implemented. The authority of law is our best chance against the law of the strongest.”
7. Med shot, French President
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Russian aggression is not Europe’s problem, but that of all of us here. It raises the eternal question of the authority of law versus the law of the strongest, of freedom versus imperialism. Ukraine did not want war; it wants peace. France also wants peace. Europeans want peace. The United States of America wants peace. For this, Ukraine has a fundamental right: to live in security and no longer fear that Russia will attack it again.”
9. Wide shot, French President at rostrum
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“There can be no security or stability for Israel if it leads a permanent war with all its neighbors. Peace with Palestine, in the West Bank, in Gaza, and throughout Jerusalem. Peace in Lebanon, where the fight against terrorism cannot come at the expense of the sovereignty of the Lebanese people.”
11. Various shot, Lebanese delegation, Palestinian delegation
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Either Iran makes a gesture and goes back to the path of peace and accountability that makes it possible to get back on course, and for the IAEA to do its work and for stockpiles to be transferred, or sanctions will have to be imposed,” he said.
13. Med shot, Iranian delegate
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“If we fail to hold an organized international conversation on the major imbalances of the planet, and if we respond to them in a scattered and non-cooperative way, we will only make them worse.”
15. Wide shot, French President at rostrum
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“This Assembly is us. If it is ineffective, it is because a few block it—and often the most powerful. If it does not vote quickly enough, it is because we are not determined enough to make it move forward. The United Nations is all of us. There is one thing: we do not have the right to cynicism. We do not have the right to fatigue. We do not have the right to a spirit of defeat, because our world is here, before us. And the risk we face is that of fragmentation, of the law of the strongest, of ‘faits accomplis,’ of cynicism, and in a way, of losing control.”
17. Med shot, French delegation
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Yield nothing to injustice, yield nothing to inevitability. Act. Act. Act. It is up to us to act together.”
19. Various shots, French President at rostrum, delegates clapping
French President Emmanuel Macron said, “We do not have the right to cynicism.”
Addressing the General Assembly’s General Debate today (23 Sep) Macron said, “This Organization is irreplaceable. That is why its fiercest critics are also those who want to change the rules of the game in favor of their own domination, more interested in carving up the world than in reaching the compromises necessary for the common good.”
He also said, “Let us support the International Criminal Court in its fight against impunity. Let us ensure that the orders of the International Court of Justice are implemented. The authority of law is our best chance against the law of the strongest.”
He stated, “Russian aggression is not Europe’s problem, but that of all of us here. It raises the eternal question of the authority of law versus the law of the strongest, of freedom versus imperialism. Ukraine did not want war; it wants peace. France also wants peace. Europeans want peace. The United States of America wants peace. For this, Ukraine has a fundamental right: to live in security and no longer fear that Russia will attack it again.”
He highlighted, “There can be no security or stability for Israel if it leads a permanent war with all its neighbors. Peace with Palestine, in the West Bank, in Gaza, and throughout Jerusalem. Peace in Lebanon, where the fight against terrorism cannot come at the expense of the sovereignty of the Lebanese people.”
He also said, “Either Iran makes a gesture and goes back to the path of peace and accountability that makes it possible to get back on course, and for the IAEA to do its work and for stockpiles to be transferred, or sanctions will have to be imposed,” he said.
He stressed, “If we fail to hold an organized international conversation on the major imbalances of the planet, and if we respond to them in a scattered and non-cooperative way, we will only make them worse.”
He continued, “This Assembly is us. If it is ineffective, it is because a few block it—and often the most powerful. If it does not vote quickly enough, it is because we are not determined enough to make it move forward. The United Nations is all of us. There is one thing: we do not have the right to cynicism. We do not have the right to fatigue. We do not have the right to a spirit of defeat, because our world is here, before us. And the risk we face is that of fragmentation, of the law of the strongest, of ‘faits accomplis,’ of cynicism, and in a way, of losing control.”
He concluded, “Yield nothing to injustice, yield nothing to inevitability. Act. Act. Act. It is up to us to act together.”
