I have heard that line many times when I have testified before the US Congress.

I shall now address a few more specific matters in order to illustrate the general comments I have just made.

Of course, I have already said in my statement that I wish my successor, Tim Caughley of New Zealand, every success during his term of office.

Towards the end of October 2004, I delivered my initial statement concerning the mandate to the Third Committee of the General Assembly.

And that means, if you mark your choices on one of them and then remove the candidate list, I won't be able to tell from the bit remaining what your vote is for.

When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.

Across the country, voters arrived on crutches and in donkey carts, passing by posters that threatened You vote, you die.

MANAGUA Like thousands of Nicaraguans, I voted for Managua s mayor in local elections last November.

And I'm telling you, I actually testified at the Senate about the absolute ludicrous idea that we would actually evacuate, and actually have three or four days' warning.

I am pleased to transmit to you herewith the statement that I delivered on behalf of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Burundi to the Economic and Social Council on 4 February 2005 (see annex).

But, from the point of view of a post Soviet voter living in the countryside, the webcam sent a different message the government knows how you vote.

Mr. Fal (Gambia) I want to make an intervention on the statement you just made, Sir, concerning the reason why item 42 of the provisional agenda was not included in the agenda of the sixtieth session.

I also stand ready, if so requested by this Assembly, to amplify and further refine the elements of a counter terrorism strategy that I identified in my Madrid speech last March.

As someone involved in that process, I feel it is important to put my views on record, as comments I made previously are now being used as part of the effort to undermine Judge Goldstone and his important work.

Nominated to the Commission by the Italian Government, I was compelled to withdraw because of some allegedly homophobic remarks I was said to have made before the European Parliament s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs.

As I pointed out in recent Congressional testimony, poor education leads to poor job prospects, poor families, and back to poor education if not with a detour through incarceration, which makes it even harder to break the cycle.