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moral outrage topic. We celebrate this year the 250th anniversary of the United States and everyone knows the place that France took there. A rare event occurred during the UN Security Council on July 27. As the French ambassador Jérôme Bonafon speaks, the seat of his American counterpart is [music] empty. The United States had in fact decided to leave the meeting during his speech to protest French comments related to a vote on human rights. I must point out that there is a member of this council that will moral outrage and pretend to lecture the rest of us about every topic whether conflict we discussing yet again today even those unrelated security like at the origin of this difference between the United States and France, there is a vote organized on July 24 in plenary session. It concerned the renewal for 4 years of the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Walker Turc. The United States opposed it, as did Russia, North Korea, Argentina, and Israel. In reaction, the mission of France to the United Nations in Geneva posted on X. The United States was once a model in human rights. This is no longer the case. In retaliation, the United States therefore decided to boycott French speeches. And faced with this position, France's response was not long in coming. We celebrate this year the 250th anniversary of the United States. and everyone knows the place that France took there. We are particularly aware of the fact that it was in San Francisco that the charter was adopted and that the United Nations was created with the objective of working for international peace and security, for human rights, for development. All of this is the spirit in which France works, at the United Nations, in the Security Council, in the General Assembly to preserve this institution, its independence, its capacity for action in the service of the charter, in the service of human rights, and in the service of peace. Mr.