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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hayat Al Yamani tweets that her colleagues from Al Jazeera Mubashar have been arrested too.

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.

Mr. TREZZA (Italy) Mr. President, let me start by joining you in expressing our condolences to our colleagues from Iraq and the United States for the tragedy at Al A'imma bridge in Baghdad and for the victims and damage caused by hurricane Katrina.

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

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.

Bird obtained his degree by submitting testimonials from qualified colleagues, which was common practice at the time.

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.

Mr. Abel (Brazil) (spoke in Spanish) I should like at the outset to acknowledge the young people of Brazil and my colleagues from the National Youth Secretariat, who are joining in our work via the Internet.

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).

This is real AFM Atomic Force Microscope data from my colleagues in the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center.

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

The blood was brought from India by one of Kamruzzaman's colleagues and used in a surgery that saved his life.

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.

The Office piloted a parallel Protection Learning Programme for UNHCR Partners in 2004 in which 50 colleagues from partner agencies participated.

To mark the one year anniversary of the arrest and detention of the Zone9 bloggers and associated journalists, our community crowd sourced this video to support our jailed colleagues. This collage features messages and wishes from Mexico, Chile, the US, Cuba, Croatia, Colombia, Kenya, Switzerland, Iran, Syria, France, Azerbaijan and of course, Ethiopia.

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.