June 1996, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Iceland intends to continue to play its role in that respect.

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland) I am taking the floor briefly to express Iceland's continuing support for the rebuilding of Afghanistan.

Iceland joined the CBSS in 1995.

Action against corruption assistance to States in capacity building with a view to facilitating the entry into force and subsequent implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland) Iceland welcomes the Security Council's decision to deliberate on the important issue of children and armed conflict.

Unfortunately, Iceland's ideas about GMA, including, in particular, as regards its scope, and those of States that have ambitions for GMA well beyond what Iceland considers appropriate, have so far not been reconcilable.

Subsequently, Iceland joined in sponsoring the draft resolution.

Geir H. Haarde, the Foreign Minister of Iceland, succeeded him on 15 June 2006.

Iceland has also participated in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

It does end eventually, as it has just for starters in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece.

(For Iceland in the fall of 2008, for example, the only alternative to IMF financing was to eat locally obtained goods, which mostly means fish.)

The next speaker on my list is the representative of Iceland, to whom I give the floor.

His Excellency Mr. Halldór Ásgrimsson, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iceland

The couple moved to Iceland in 1968, and Ashkenazy became an Icelandic citizen in 1972.

Iceland therefore stands fully behind the Secretary General in his efforts to modernize the management and to strengthen the Organization.

Consider Iceland, which suffered bitterly following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

Since the 1995 world championship in Iceland, the competition has been every two years.

In the second sentence, add Iceland to the list of additional sponsors of the draft resolution

Some states (Iceland and Hungary) are clearly bankrupt.

In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively.

Nor is Iceland a poster child for the claim that avoiding austerity works.

For many years, Iceland has advocated a more representative and legitimate Council.

Iceland actually has repeatedly stated that those changes are long overdue.

Iceland s superior economic performance should thus not be attributed to the devaluation of the krona, but rather to global warming, which pushed the herring farther North, into Icelandic waters.

Iceland fully subscribes to such an approach, which forms the basis of our own marine strategy, issued last year.

The President The next speaker on my list is the representative of Iceland, to whom I give the floor.

In addition, the Icelandic people as a whole have shown solidarity with the victims of the tsunami.

Welcoming Cape Verde, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar and Qatar to membership in the Committee on Information,

This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well.

By contrast, Iceland s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth.

Iceland is therefore a sponsor of draft resolution A 59 L.64, and urges other countries to support it.

Albania, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Nicaragua, Solomon Islands.

In the view of Iceland, the effectiveness of the Agreement depends primarily on its broad ratification and implementation.

Unlike many other countries, in Iceland the large majority of road accident fatalities do not occur in the city.

Two years ago, in this very forum, Iceland drew attention to the relevance of the Arctic marine environment.

Iceland has actively encouraged an open discussion on marine pollution, an issue of international concern.

Under those circumstances, Iceland reserves its position as to its possible future participation in the further consideration of issues relating to the establishment of the regular process.

Last summer the Government of Iceland launched an initiative to reduce speeding and to improve seat belt use on rural highways.

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland) Mr. President, we congratulate you on your election and wish you well in the important work ahead.

The European phase began on July 9, 2007, in Paris, concluding in Reykjavík, Iceland on September 2, 2007.

Moreover, a National Committee for UNICEF was established in Iceland in March 2004 it would collect funds for international projects.

Iceland has taken seriously the recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention.

Small countries such as Iceland decided to get in on the action by privatizing their banks and setting up their own financial centers. If you cannot be Silicon Valley, then why not create a mini Wall Street?

Iceland, for example, has embarked on an unprecedented experiment in crafting a bottom up, crowd sourced constitution.