President Kibaki It gives me great pleasure to address the General Assembly on the occasion of my first visit to the United Nations as head of State.

It is my great pleasure to be here today to share with the Assembly the progress and the steps taken so far in Timor Leste to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Mr. President, I am especially pleased to appear before the Security Council during your tenure.

Ms. Borsiin Bonnier (Sweden) It is a pleasure to take the floor under your chairmanship, Sir.

Ms. Hrastović (Croatia) It is a great pleasure and privilege to address this timely High level Dialogue on Financing for Development here in New York, the place where our heads of State and Government shall meet in September in order to review the Millennium Declaration.

It is my pleasure to inform delegations that Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention in May this year.

The President It is my great pleasure to welcome the presence of the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, at this meeting.

And that's what I'd like to talk to you a little bit about today.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) Mr. President, I am particularly pleased to welcome you.

Here I'm one person talking to you.

Mr. Diarra (Mali) (spoke in French) Mr. President, my delegation is pleased to see you presiding over this meeting of the Security Council.

I am pleased to note that there was some decline in the number of incidents in the Temporary Security Zone and adjacent areas during the reporting period.

I am proud to list Costa Rica among them.

It is a special pleasure for me to address this opening ceremony of the 2005 Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism.

I'm going to talk to you today about the design of medical technology for low resource settings.

Should you or any Council member require information at any other time, I should be only too pleased to provide a written update.

As the meeting ended, Saif invited me to Libya and I said more out of politeness than anything else that I would be happy to come.

I am glad that the General Assembly has given broad support to these changes and I believe they have improved our ability to do the job the world expects of us.

Ms. Jusufaj (Albania) It gives me great pleasure to introduce to the General Assembly the reports of the First Committee on agenda items 85 to 105 and 116.

I am also pleased to hear that the Government of Uganda today repeated that a negotiated outcome is still on the table for northern Uganda, as was expressed by the Permanent Representative.

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Mr. Nguyen Duy Chien (Viet Nam) It gives the Vietnamese delegation great pleasure to participate in today's discussion on the important agenda item on the question of Palestine.

Mr. KUKAN (Slovakia) It is a great honour for me to address this important forum.

As I said, it is too early to celebrate.

Judge Møse It is an honour to address the members of the Security Council to present an updated version of the completion strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), submitted to the Council on 5 December 2005.

Klein did not build a school at Erlangen where there were few students, and so he was pleased to be offered a chair at Munich's Technische Hochschule in 1875.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

And without giving you too much of a tirade, I want to talk to you about an invention I brought with me today my 44th invention. No, that's not true either.

Mr. Ganiev (Uzbekistan) (spoke in Russian) It is with great satisfaction that, on behalf of the Republic of Uzbekistan, at this anniversary session of the General Assembly, I greet leaders and other representatives and wish them all success in the work of this session.

It is a privilege for India to be a partner in the path that Afghanistan has chosen, so I come back with a great sense of satisfaction that our two countries are working hand in hand to accelerate the tempo of social and economic development and to strengthen the democratic foundations of the polity of Afghanistan.

So while I'm talking to you, the seats you are sit on are currently emitting some invisible and odorless toxic gas. Sorry for that.

My delegation welcomes the information that Liberia has submitted a letter to the President of the General Assembly requesting an exemption under Article 19 of the Charter, and it is my pleasure to announce that Liberia has also joined the list of sponsors of the draft resolution.

It is a source of pride that many Colombians have left their mark on the Organization.

It is a great pleasure for me to address this Committee once again to report on the progress and developments in the spheres of chemical disarmament and non proliferation and international cooperation, and on the activities carried out in implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

It's very, very difficult to speak at the end of a conference like this, because everyone has spoken. Everything has been said.

Mr. Lim (Singapore) It gives me great pleasure to participate in this meeting of the General Assembly devoted to a discussion of youth issues, and particularly to an evaluation of progress made in implementing the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond.

It is helpful to review where the world economy now stands.

Queen Rania sets the standard for breaking down stereotypes and her YouTube videos are nothing short of inspirational, Al Arabiya quoted YouTube co founder Chad Hurley as saying. It is both a pleasure and an honor to present her with this much deserved tribute.

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Mr. Atsou (Togo) (spoke in French) It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of roughly half of the five million inhabitants of Togo, who are young people, in order to convey to the General Assembly the efforts Togo has made to implement the World Programme of Action for Youth.

We find it useful to divide the capitalist economies into four broad categories.

But before I talk about the political chemistry, I actually need to talk about the chemistry of oil.

I am glad that the Kyoto Protocol has now entered into force, albeit three years after the deadline set by the Millennium Declaration, but I also note that it extends only until 2012 and that some major emitters of carbon remain outside it.

Mr. Hamidon (Malaysia) First and foremost, I have the pleasure to convey, on behalf of my delegation, our heartiest congratulations to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General, Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, on the outstanding achievement of being awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

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