I eagerly await your decision.

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.

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

I would also like to extend to the Council the greetings of to The Right Honourable Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary General.

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 convey the greetings of the people and Government of Uruguay to this forum, which is the broadest, most representative and most important forum in the world today.

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.

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.

Cardinal Sodano (Holy See) (spoke in French) I have the honour of conveying the cordial greetings of Pope Benedict XVI, to the Co Chairpersons and to the heads of State or Government gathered here.

He has therefore asked me, humbly and on his behalf, to convey the greetings of Côte d'Ivoire to the President of the General Assembly, the outgoing President, the Secretary General and all participants here.

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.

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.

On Sunday, January 12 13 days after the first protest organized by the collective PT's reaction (Worker's Party) came in the form of a post on the party's official page on Facebook It's agreed.

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.

Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Bahrain) (spoke in Arabic) I have the honour to convey to all participants the greetings of the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and his best wishes for the success of this conference.

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.

Sayyid Haitham Bin Tang Al Said (Oman) (spoke in Arabic) I have the honour to convey to the Assembly greetings from His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, Sultan of Oman, and his best wishes for success in its endeavours to achieve the desired goals and objectives.

Mr. Abdallah (Tunisia) (spoke in Arabic) I have the honour to convey the sincere greetings of His Excellency President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Republic of Tunisia, and to deliver His Excellency's address to this United Nations High level Meeting.

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. 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.

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.

In conclusion, I would like to take this opportunity to convey to this World Youth Meeting the greetings and appreciation of Sudanese youth and their aspirations for a productive partnership with all youth around the world in order to promote the peace efforts in the Sudan through reconstruction, the promise of peace, development, prosperity and well being.

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.

In the opening session, Obama s special envoy, Denis Ross, was greeted with resounding silence when he conveyed to the participants his boss s warm wishes. By contrast, China s culture minister was welcomed very warmly when he spoke, in typical fashion, of the growing need for global harmony.

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.

Private equity in the 1980s In January 1982, former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for 80 million, of which only 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

Before making my statement, I would like to convey to the Council the greetings of Mr. Pier Ferdinando Casini, Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who has just been elected President of our organization for a three year term and who will be coming to New York early next week for the annual parliamentary hearing at the United Nations.