We welcome you to our club.

HA The people who are coming to us, we are welcoming.

We welcome the mobilization of international efforts to combat proliferation.

In summary, we welcome the outcome document as a reasonable balance of issues overall.

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The European Union welcomes the first annual report of the International Criminal Court (ICC) submitted to the General Assembly and we warmly welcome the President of the Court, Judge Philippe Kirsch, and thank him for his presentation today.

Finally, we welcome the promise of the world's leaders to make the United Nations a more effective and a more principled institution.

We welcome the commitment of the Secretary General to secure a just gender balance in the staffing of the Organization.

I would also like to extend to you our warm congratulations on your accession to your high office.

In that context, we welcome the proposal in the summit's outcome document to strengthen the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

New Zealand warmly welcomes the renewal of the mandate for the Informal Consultative Process.

Mr. RIVASSEAU (France) (translated from French) Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you very warmly as you take the Chair.

We cordially appeal to them resolutely to cooperate to resolve the situation in Haiti in all its aspects.

I would also like to pay high tribute to Mr. Jean Ping, your predecessor, for his distinguished leadership.

We also warmly congratulate Mr. ElBaradei on his reappointment as IAEA Director General for another term.

On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Michael Ambühl, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and I give him the floor.

We also welcome Ms. Kawaguchi.

We welcome and appreciate these developments.

We therefore welcome the current consultations.

We welcome that important development.

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Considering you as the institutional symbol of the Lebanese Woman, it is to you that I address myself.

On behalf of the Security Council I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency, Mr. Phil Goff, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand.

We welcome the initiative to establish a Democracy Fund.

That is very welcome.

I pay a warm tribute to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Jean Ping, Minister of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie of the Gabonese Republic.

Such proposals are welcome, and we support the objectives specified.

We welcome any information on their whereabouts.

On the whole, we support the conclusions and the recommendations contained in the report.

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For years I have been strongly defending Egypt and saying the problem is not in Egypt, but in its residents But recently I've become tired.

I would also like to congratulate warmly the Secretary General for his courageous initiatives to give our Organization new momentum and further the fundamental ideals and principles of the United Nations.

We therefore welcome the measures adopted by the General Assembly with a view to strengthening its role and authority and enabling the President of the General Assembly to play a leadership role and, to that end, we call for their full and speedy implementation.

The document serves as a welcome follow up of the outcome of the 2005 world summit.

We welcome the report of the Secretary General on women and peace and security.

In general, we welcome the increased focus on human rights.

We welcome its recent success in this area.

We welcome private sector contributions to development and humanitarian relief

We also welcome the decision of the Government of Mexico to ratify the Rome Statute.

We in the wealthy West do not have the right to abandon this task, and we must welcome in the same community of destiny all democratic countries east to Russia if they fulfill the EU s criteria.

For that reason, we welcome the Secretary General's proposal to create a Peacebuilding Commission to improve the coordination of United Nations systems, policies and country specific operations from the start of peacekeeping efforts through stabilization and reconstruction to development activities.

The Network applauds the efforts of the Secretary General and the United Nations system in this area and warmly welcomes the action plan, which it commits to supporting in full.

The Trade and Development Board warmly welcomes the generous offer of Ghana to host UNCTAD XII in 2008.

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

We, too, welcome the presence of the Minister of Serbia and Montenegro here this morning.