But a particular tribute goes to all our colleagues.

We thank our Canadian colleagues for suggesting that topic.

Some of our colleagues died while trying to provide assistance.

But I have wonderful colleagues and friends and they understand our situation.

We look forward to working with our Council colleagues on this critical issue.

And our Dutch and New Zealand colleagues tried to capture what they saw as the limits of the possible at this time.

Now this is what many introverts do, and it's our loss for sure, but it is also our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss.

Our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family if all the people in our inner circle resemble us, it means we are surrounded with our mirror image.

We salute you for that, and we wish all our colleagues a very happy holiday.

Before proceeding with our work, I see that we have been joined today by our junior colleagues from the Disarmament Fellowship Programme.

All the comments offered today will be taken home to Arusha and shared with our colleagues there.

I would furthermore also like to take this opportunity to welcome our new colleagues to the Conference.

That brings me back to where I started the silent question in the eyes of our African colleagues.

Ms. Tahir Kheli (United States of America) I should like to begin by expressing to our colleagues from the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See, our colleagues from the Permanent Mission of Poland and indeed to all those who looked to Pope John Paul II as a spiritual guide my country's deepest sympathies on his passing.

So, dear colleagues, let s have our archives, inventories and catalogues ready, to help trace the material, should it disappear.

Furthermore, I hope that our colleagues the representatives of Pakistan and Guatemala will convey this message to their authorities.

We have to face up to the terrible reality that our colleagues on the ground are witnessing and reporting every day.

We are discussing handing over operations in places in southern Sudan to our development colleagues in the course of next year.

We have always valued the opportunity to exchange information with our international colleagues and to collaborate on issues of common interest.

Our colleagues in the field say, therefore that they are extremely worried that the major gains we have made could be lost.

Some of our colleagues have made thoughtful interventions about matters not raised in the Secretary General's report but that merit careful consideration.

And now that I should be given first aid by our colleagues from the medical team... they were forcibly arrested by the police.

First, with respect to Darfur, the reports we are getting from our colleagues in the field is that it all could end tomorrow.

We assure Mr. ElBaradei and his colleagues of our full support and cooperation with a view to achieving progress and prosperity for all.

Like other colleagues we would also extend our best wishes to Ambassador Volker Heinsberg for his future career and for his future life.

At the outset, the Federation and its member national societies, and our colleagues from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), quickly reached agreement on our cooperation in the region.

HayatElYamani The Military Police broke into the place we were filming in at dawn and took our equipment and arrested three of my colleagues

Mr. Aspelund (Iceland) First, I would like to join all my colleagues in expressing our deepest condolences to the victims of the tsunami tragedy.

It is not my intention nor, I am sure, the intention of my colleagues on the Special Committee to be party to a process of inaction, with the adoption of resolutions as our only goal.

As rescue and rehabilitation efforts continued, we also established immediately close cooperation and coordination with all local authorities and our colleagues from the United Nations system, especially the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are determined to keep inflation low as the economy recovers.

Icons like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and their colleagues will be teaming up with icons Jabbar, Noora, Jami and their colleagues.

But all indications are that he is just as childishly reckless on fiscal policy as most of his Republican colleagues since Ronald Reagan.

German economists, in contrast to their American colleagues, never abandoned Keynesian policies as a means to combat demand deficits.

More than a few of our colleagues have noted that many of the ideas that garnered significant support in the course of our previous consultations do not seem to have found their way into the report.

The selfish man was despised by his colleagues.

And in South Africa, we had taken our innovators, and many of us had gone there share with the colleagues in South Africa as to how innovation can become a means of liberation from the drudgery that people have.

As a European working in the US, I admit that I do take many more vacations than my American colleagues.

So that's getting a lot of interest, and to show you some example of what we did in there, we actually dropped a probe, which was developed by our colleagues in Europe, we dropped a probe as we were orbiting Saturn.

We proposed our own amendments to the texts prepared by our French and American colleagues, which made it more balanced in nature, without, however, fully freeing it of negativism with respect to Syria unnecessary in the current situation.

This happens to my Christian colleagues and friends too.

But Alabdullah says he and his colleagues are undeterred.

With so many new colleagues we must be successful.

They may well cover up the acts of colleagues.

As a result, he was ready to adopt unconventional measures when the crisis erupted, and was persuasive in influencing his colleagues.