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

Permit me also to extend congratulations to the other members of the Bureau.

Mr. Abdullah (Oman) (interpretation from Arabic) Mr. President, please allow me at the outset to congratulate you on your assumption of the Presidency of the forty ninth session of the General Assembly.

Let me, however, add a few additional remarks.

At the outset of my statement, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month. We are confident that your experience and wisdom will lead to the success of the Council's deliberations.

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. 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.

Mr. AL NUAIMI (United Arab Emirates) (interpretation from Arabic) On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you our sincere congratulations on your election as President of the forty eighth session of the General Assembly.

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 would be remiss if I failed also to extend our congratulations to the Vice Chairmen and the Rapporteur on their well deserved election.

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I should also like, on behalf of the delegation of the Sudan, to sincerely congratulate Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei on his re election as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a third term, as well as on the well deserved award of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I wish also to convey our compliments to Mr. Samuel Insanally of Guyana on his exemplary and able leadership during his presidency of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

On this occasion, I wish to thank the Japanese Government, which has provided assistance and facilitated the participation of Iraqi experts.

Mr. Choe Su Hon (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) (spoke in Korean English text furnished by the delegation) On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, please allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

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

In closing, I wish to extend my Government apos s warmest congratulations to the nine winners of the human rights award.

Mr. Shambos (Cyprus) May I first congratulate you, Sir, and the other officers of the Committee on your election.

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Mr. Li Zhaoxing (China) (spoke in Chinese) May I begin by extending my congratulations on your election as the President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. AL SAHAF (Iraq) (interpretation from Arabic) Allow me to begin by extending to you, Sir, my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

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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.

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Mr. Hama (Niger) (spoke in French) Allow me at the outset, on behalf of the Niger and the delegation accompanying me, to associate myself with the heartfelt congratulations extended to the Co Chairpersons, on their election to preside over our work.

Mr. President, on behalf of the Swaziland delegation, let me offer my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of this forty eighth session of the General Assembly.

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