France
A combined view of France's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
France's UN General Assembly speeches have been consistently anchored in multilateralism across the 15-year period, with scores ranging from 78–95 on multilateral framing. From 2006–2008, France championed UN institutions and international law on Middle East conflicts and climate, evolving by 2012–2020 to pair sustained multilateral appeals with increasingly detailed and concrete French policy commitments—particularly on Syria, climate finance, Africa, and security. The 2017–2018 speeches marked a notable intensification, with France mounting a philosophically grounded defense of multilateralism against unilateralism and nationalism amid rising global polarization. Most recently (2022–2025), France has maintained high multilateral rhetoric while addressing Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Gaza crisis, though concrete commitments and self-accountability have moderated slightly from their 2012–2020 peaks.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2008 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2011 | High | Very High | High | Low |
| 2012 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2013 | High | High | High | High |
| 2015 | Very High | High | Very High | High |
| 2016 | High | Very High | High | High |
| 2017 | Very High | Very High | High | High |
| 2018 | Very High | Very High | High | High |
| 2019 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2020 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2022 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2023 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2024 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2025 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →France demonstrates exceptionally strong commitment to international law, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across all major themes. Its strongest engagement is with environmental accords—ratifying all 10 tracked climate, biodiversity, and hazardous-waste conventions—and human rights instruments, with all five tracked conventions ratified including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. France has also ratified all three arms-control treaties in the dataset (Arms Trade Treaty, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and the Mine Ban Treaty), with the single exception being the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, reflecting its continued reliance on nuclear deterrence as a permanent Security Council member.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsNo action
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Across 5,694 votes, France voted yes on 47% of measures and abstained on 32%, indicating a broadly supportive but cautious multilateral posture. The most striking pattern is France's consistent dissent on fissionable-material disarmament resolutions in the late 1980s–early 1990s, voting no when 99% of the General Assembly voted yes—a stark departure from consensus that underscores its strategic nuclear-weapons interests as a permanent Security Council member. This narrow but persistent dissent reflects the principled tension between France's strong rhetorical investment in multilateralism and international law and its core national security interests in nuclear deterrence.
Notable dissents from consensus
General and completed disarmament : prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1987-11-30 · voted N · 99% voted yes
General and complete disarmament : prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1986-12-03 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1989-12-15 · voted N · 99% voted yes
General and completed disarmament : notification of nuclear tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1987-11-30 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1990-12-04 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.920 (Very High), ranked #26 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023