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However, I wish to take this opportunity to extend to you our best wishes on your election today.

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

I would like, first of all, to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the important position of Chairman.

At the outset, I wish to extend our warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your unanimous election as Chairman of the First Committee.

Mr. Mayoral (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish) I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened today's debate.

I would like to offer warm congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as Chairman of the First Committee at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

Mr. De Alba (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish) Sir, I take pleasure in extending our most sincere congratulations to you on your election to the chairmanship.

Mr. Al Rumaihi (Qatar) (spoke in Arabic) It gives me great pleasure at the outset to extend to you, Mr. President, our congratulations upon your election to the presidency of this sixtieth session of the General Assembly. We wish you every success in discharging your functions.

Really, I go step by step.

I never see myself moving forward in time.

So I otters the information to you.

I'll go ahead and light the way.

I decided to apply.

I'm getting along in years.

Mr. Al Faihani (Bahrain) (interpretation from Arabic) At the outset, it is gives me great pleasure to extend to you, Sir, my delegation apos s sincere congratulations on your election to the chairmanship of the First Committee this year.

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I also extend best wishes to the other officers of the Committee.

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On that basis, I presume to sue for your daughter's hand.

Just one thing. I haven't proposed and she hasn't accepted.

But I knew that in order to move forward,

You know, Sam is going to be Doctor Van Ney in like a year's time. No!

I might even run for county sheriff in a couple of months.

Mr. Al Jaafari (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic) I wish first of all to express my sincerest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I wish you success in performing this historic and humanitarian mission in the best interests of humanity at large.

Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish) I wish at the outset to extend to you, Sir, the most cordial congratulations of the Government and people of Ecuador on Argentina's well deserved election to the Council.

Mrs. Bonilla Galvão de Queiroz (Guatemala) (spoke in Spanish) May I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the chairmanship of the First Committee at the present session of the General Assembly.

Mr. LEEKPAI (Thailand) On behalf of the Government and the people of Thailand, may I extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

Mr. Fostervoll (Norway) First, on behalf of the Norwegian delegation, may I congratulate you, Mr. Chairman, and the other members of the Bureau on your election.

I should have been applying to college I was applying to high school, that's how old I was.

Mr. Filali (Morocco) (interpretation from Arabic) I am pleased to extend to you, Sir, my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the forty ninth session of the General Assembly and to express to you my great delight at seeing you, a distinguished friend from a sisterly country, conducting the work of this session.

With those words, I thank everyone for their presence.

In addition, I would like to make the following recommendations

Let me, however, add a few additional remarks.

At this stage, I wish to make a few general observations.

Mr. Djangoné Bi (Côte d'Ivoire) (spoke in French) I wish at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you sincerely, Sir, on Denmark's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May.

Mr. Akram (Pakistan) Permit me at the outset to extend the warm felicitations of the Pakistan delegation to you, Mr. President, and to the delegation of Greece on the skilful manner in which you are guiding the work of the Council.

I am currently petitioning the Board of Governors to remove Dimon from this position.

I should like to shed some necessary light on a number of issues.

At the same time, I extend a cordial welcome to the new Members of our Organization.

Permit me to make a few additional observations on behalf of the Austrian delegation.

I would also like to extend my congratulations to the newly elected officers of the Committee.

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Mr. Skrabalo (Croatia) Mr. Chairman, as my delegation is taking the floor for the first time during this session of the First Committee, allow me to congratulate you and the Bureau on your election.

I also wish to extend our sincere thanks to the outgoing President, Mr. Ping.