On behalf of the Committee, I would like to extend a warm welcome to them.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Oluyemi Adeniji.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Aziz Pahad.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Ali Othman Taha.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Baba Gana Kingibe.

The President On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. John Garang de Mabior.

I should like to warmly welcome Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Boutros Assaker, Acting Secretary General of the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Nebojsa Cović, President of the Coordination Centre of Serbia and Montenegro and of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija.

On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.

The Chairman Allow me to extend my warm welcome to all delegations. I look forward to working with them in a cooperative and productive atmosphere during the weeks ahead.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to the Chairman in Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Mr. Dimitrij Rupel, and invite him to take a seat at the Council table.

On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Nebojsa Covic, President of the Coordination Centre of Serbia and Montenegro and of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, and invite him to take a seat at the Council table.

Those changes have been most welcome.

That is very welcome.

That was warmly greeted by the residents of Tokelau.

I will not dwell on specific country or regional situations, except to briefly welcome the Council's recent decision to give the green light for the Kosovo future status process to move forward, for we believe that further stalling would not be beneficial either to the resolution of the matter and Kosovo's stabilization or for the stabilization of the wider region.

We can do things better, and I welcome the reform debate on both sides.

In that connection, we very much welcome the thoughts outlined by Poland.

In that context, we warmly welcome the proposal to establish a peacebuilding commission.

I welcome the presence of the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan.

Furthermore, I welcome the ongoing resettlement programmes.

I, therefore, welcome our commitment to increase our official development assistance.

Denmark was thus happy to sponsor the draft resolution and warmly welcomes its unanimous adoption.

I thus welcome the strengthening of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Although not approved within the framework of the New and Emerging Science and Technology programme, the project was well received.

We warmly welcome the accessions to the Honolulu Convention this year of the Philippines, Japan, Canada, Vanuatu and France.

I am going. Those who want to come, I welcome you to come along with me.

As I said in my opening statement, I very much welcome those invitations.

In addition, I should like to welcome the CTC's new members.

I welcome the presence of the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, at this meeting.

I should like also to welcome the presence of the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan.

So I would welcome a possibility to discuss this issue informally in the future.

I welcome the offer of CARICOM to provide technical assistance to the electoral process.

We unequivocally welcome the Secretary General's report entitled In larger freedom (A 59 2005).

I further welcome the presence of Advocate Mojanku Gumbi, President Mbeki's legal adviser.

I welcome the presence of the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and invite him to take the floor.

CARICOM warmly welcomes Mexico's ratification of the Rome Statute on 31 October.

To finish, I would like to welcome the 4,700th baby born since the beginning of this talk.

On behalf of the Republic of Croatia, I welcome the declaration on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

In that regard, I welcome the role of the new African Partnership Forum.

In this respect, the commitment announced by the G 8 in Gleneagles to double annual aid to Africa is very welcome.