Mr. Chaudhry (Pakistan) On behalf of the Pakistan delegation, I express the heartiest felicitations to Director General ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for having received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Congrats to all involved!

I eagerly await your decision.

My congratulations go also to the other members of the Bureau.

We wished him luck and waited the next few hours with bated breath, fingers and toes crossed, clutching our respective good luck charms.

As I said in my opening statement, I very much welcome those invitations.

Mary spent all her free time last week answering birthday greetings.

On average, the warmest month is July and the coolest month is January.

We express our profound condolences to his family and to the people of Georgia.

The Security Council offers its deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of Dr. Garang and to the people and Government of the Republic of Sudan.

I wish Ambassador Joseph Ayologu of Nigeria my full support and warmest greetings for his presidency.

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

The warmest month of the year is July, with an average temperature of , whereas the coldest month is February.

On my own behalf and on behalf of the Conference on Disarmament I should like to express our deepest condolences to the United States and the Government of Iraq and to the families of the victims.

Congratulations have been pouring in from all corners since the winners of this year's much anticipated Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced.

President Kumaratunga I extend to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations as you assume the high office of the President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. Kryzhanivsky (Ukraine) I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you, Ambassador Choi, on your assumption of the chairmanship of the Committee.

Allow me, on behalf of all the member States and observer States of the SCO, to extend our warmest congratulations on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

If I may, on behalf of those I represent, I would like to offer you, Mr. President, our warmest personal congratulations, as well as our thanks to you and your team for the service you have given us.

Mr. Wangchuk (Bhutan) Allow me to begin by extending my delegation's warmest congratulations to the President upon his assumption of the office of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

For those speakers who wish to express congratulations, in order to avoid disruption for the speakers, I would seek the cooperation of representatives in remaining in their seats after a statement has been delivered.

Mr. Beck (Palau) On behalf of the Government and the people of Palau, I wish to express our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the tragic loss of lives in the terrorist attacks in Amman.

In that spirit, we extend our warmest congratulation to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, my friend and colleague Mohamed ElBaradei, on the Nobel Peace Prize they so magnificently received last Friday.

Mr. Berruga (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish) At the outset, I would like to express to the people and Government of Jordan Mexico's deepest condolences and condemnation of the despicable terrorist attacks perpetrated two days ago in Amman.

I should also like to draw the attention of representatives to the decision taken by the Assembly at previous sessions that the practice of expressing congratulations inside the Hall after a statement has been made is strongly discouraged.

Mr. Willians Slate (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish) My delegation joins previous speakers in congratulating you, Mr. Chairman, on your well deserved election and in congratulating the other members of the Bureau.

It is also a particular pleasure to address the Assembly today under the presidency of Mr. Jan Eliasson of Sweden, to whom I offer my warm congratulations on his election as President of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

Mr. Amorim (Brazil) (spoke in Portuguese English text provided by the delegation) I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, Ambassador Jan Eliasson of Sweden, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. Kafando (Burkina Faso) (spoke in French) I should like at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, to join previous speakers in expressing to you, Sir, heartfelt congratulations on your election to the chairmanship of the Committee.

That bad news is tempered by the good news that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Mr. ElBaradei and to the International Atomic Energy Agency we express to them our heartfelt congratulations.

Mr. Inkiriwang (Indonesia) On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, I would like to begin by warmly congratulating Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei on his reappointment to the post of Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a third term.

In the post, she said she had contacted lawyers, but was still asking people what she should do to fight the cyber bullying from trolls who were congratulating her for the 10th anniversary of her latest rape and making other abusive and degrading comments about her.

At Bogotá, for example, the average annual temperature is , and the difference between the average of the coldest and the warmest months is less than 1 C (1.8 F).

We welcome Mexico as the one hundredth State party to the Rome Statute, and we warmly congratulate it, along with the Dominican Republic and Kenya, for joining the fight to end impunity.

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.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I wish to extend my thanks to Alan Doss for his briefing and for the report of the Secretary General (S 2005 186), whose presence among us at this meeting is particularly welcome.

Mr. Pandey (Nepal) I have the honour and privilege to bring the warm greetings and best wishes of His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, His Majesty's Government and the people of the Kingdom of Nepal for the success of this High level Plenary Meeting.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) On behalf of the European Union and the countries that have aligned themselves with my statement, may I offer very sincere congratulations to you, Mr. President, to the Secretary General and to everybody in this room for what has just been achieved.

It seems my city is living a new situation, moving towards the liberation of some of its parts. We still don't know the size or extent of the new areas, nor can we verify what we're hearing. But all of us those eagerly awaiting the liberation as well as those against it are anxiously following the news.

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic) Let me say at the outset that it gives me great pleasure to convey to the Assembly the congratulations of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, on the election of Mr. Eliasson, the representative of a friendly country, as President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. MARCH (Spain) (translated from Spanish) I would like first of all, at this first meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in 2005, to extend my best wishes to Ambassador Sanders and assure him of the full cooperation of the Government of Spain to ensure that the work entrusted to us proceeds satisfactorily and achieves its important objectives.