https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/news/2025/?xtor=RSS-1 en https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH72/visuel_defaut_une_fd-44916-890bc.jpg?1702480415 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr?xtor=RSS-1 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/news/2025/article/nato-meeting-of-nato-ministers-of-foreign-affairs-brussels-03-12-25?xtor=RSS-1 Minister Delegate for Europe Benjamin Haddad represented France at the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels on December 3. At this defining moment for Ukrainian and European security, Mr. Haddad reiterated France's staunch support for peace efforts – support shared by its partners in the Coalition of the Willing. France repeated its call for Europe to invest massively in defense in order to strengthen NATO's European pillar and the Alliance's strategic unity, thereby enhancing the (…) 2025-12-04 12:36:26 66066_286743 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/news/2025/article/osce-meeting-between-the-minister-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs-and-mr-feridun?xtor=RSS-1 The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting this morning with Feridun Sinirlioğlu, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Minister reiterated France's commitment to multilateralism and to the OSCE's basic principles, enshrined 50 years ago in the Helsinki Final Act but violated every day by Russia in its war of aggression against Ukraine. The Minister welcomed the efforts of the Finnish OSCE Chairpersonship-in-Office and of (…) 2025-07-04 09:17:06 66066_284679 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/news/2025/article/chemical-and-biological-weapons-centennial-of-the-geneva-protocol-june-17-2025?xtor=RSS-1 Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed on June 17, 1925. France is the depositary of this Protocol. On this occasion, as we recall the determination to prevent a repetition of WWI atrocities, France reaffirms its unwavering commitment to strengthening norms against the use of these weapons “that are an affront to the human conscience.” The (…) 2025-06-17 18:54:55 66066_284443 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/security-disarmament-and-non-proliferation/news/2025/article/ambassadors-to-the-north-atlantic-council-visit-france-s-istres-strategic-air?xtor=RSS-1 On 6 March 2025, Ambassadors to the North Atlantic Council visited France's Istres strategic air base, alongside NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska. Participants received briefings on France's nuclear deterrent from Commanders of the French Strategic Air Forces (FAS), Strategic Oceanic Force (FOST) and Naval Nuclear Air Force (FANU). The visit's various steps showed the credibility of France's airborne component, and that of its nuclear deterrent as a whole, which is strategic (…) 2025-03-07 13:59:42 66066_282987