Therefore, I warmly welcome this debate in the General Assembly.

I should also like warmly to welcome Palau to this Organization.

We warmly welcome the new Members and wish them well.

2. Warmly welcome South Africa into membership of the zone

On behalf of the Chinese Government, I wish warmly to welcome the convening of these meetings.

We warmly welcome South Africa apos s transition to full democracy.

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

Membership of the United Nations has continued to grow and I warmly welcome the newest Member States.

I should like now to address those who are to receive the human rights prizes, whom I welcome and warmly congratulate.

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

We warmly welcome all steps towards peace and reconciliation between the two neighbours.

South African brothers, your brothers and neighbours in Madagascar welcome you most warmly.

We warmly welcome the new States parties to the fold of the NPT.

I welcome very warmly the contribution made by my Australian colleague, Senator Gareth Evans, to the debate on this subject.

Finally, I warmly welcome the representatives of the six new Member States that have joined the United Nations over the past year.

The CHAIRMAN On behalf of the Special Committee, I warmly welcome all those who have accepted our invitation to join us today.

We warmly welcome the time, soon to come, when this collective instrument will enter into force.

We warmly welcome the decisions of the United States, Russia and France to extend their testing moratoriums.

In conclusion, let me say that we warmly welcome the establishment of an open ended working group.

We warmly welcome its recent inauguration, and we hope that the Tribunal will carry out its work successfully.

The Community and its member States warmly welcome the signing on 4 August 1993 of the Arusha Agreements.

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

On behalf of Niger, I warmly congratulate him.

We warmly welcome the system wide action plan for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) presented here today.

I am also happy to warmly welcome His Excellency Mr. José Ramos Horta, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, in our midst.

Finally, we warmly welcome the Republic of South Africa as a new Member of the vast family of the United Nations.

The need to integrate gender equality into conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding has thereby been most solemnly affirmed, which we warmly welcome.

We warmly welcome the new Members of the United Nations family and congratulate their Governments and peoples on taking this courageous step.

We also warmly welcome and support the establishment of the mission of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia under Colonel Pellnäs.

We warmly welcome the renewed interest and initiative on nuclear disarmament submitted yesterday to this Assembly by President Clinton and President Yeltsin.

I know that all who are present here today will warmly welcome the success to date of the process towards achieving a lasting peace in the whole island of Ireland.

Lesotho is happy to see him presiding as we all warmly welcome the new democratic South Africa back into the United Nations fold.

The PRESIDENT I now have the great honour and pleasure to welcome very warmly among us His Excellency Adam Daniel Rotfeld, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

In that spirit, I warmly welcome the world summit's recommendation that regional organizations consider placing their conflict prevention and peacekeeping capacities within the framework of the United Nations Standby Arrangements System.

On that note, I would like to warmly thank all participants.

I welcome very warmly the new Members that have just been admitted the Czech Republic, the Republic of Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Eritrea, the Principality of Monaco, and Andorra.

We warmly welcome the reaffirmation by leaders at the summit of their commitment to the full and effective implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000).

We warmly welcome the draft text of an African nuclear weapon free zone treaty adopted at Addis Ababa and we call for its timely adoption.

Similarly, we warmly welcome the increase in the planning capacity of the Secretariat, which should be manifested in expansion of the Department of Peace keeping Operations.

We warmly welcome Mexico as the 100th State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, thus bringing the Court another step closer to universality.

Welcome to Africa! Or rather, I should say, welcome home.

I therefore congratulate you very warmly and offer you my best wishes for success.

We therefore warmly welcome the signing of the Declaration of Principles which, we believe, has the potential to become the basis of such a comprehensive and lasting solution.

Mr. Dumitru (Romania) On behalf of the Romanian delegation to the Security Council, I am particularly honoured to warmly welcome the new Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, Ambassador John Bolton.

We also trust that you will be able to get to know our people and, in particular, the women of our country. We welcome all of you very warmly.