Joyce ALUOCH (Kenya)

I turn to the next delegation that has asked for the floor, the distinguished Ambassador of Sri Lanka.

I turn to the next speaker on my list, the distinguished Ambassador of Peru, Ambassador Elizabeth Astete Rodríguez.

Until that happens, they promise politicians that we will speak out in any public place where you show your venerable faces.

The PRESIDENT I thank the distinguished representative of Peru for her statement and for the kind words addressed to the Chair.

It is a great pleasure to address this august body, the Conference on Disarmament (CD), as we embark on a new year, 2005.

The PRESIDENT I thank the distinguished representative of South Africa for her statement and for the kind words addressed to the Chair.

In this regard we propose a possible study of the assistance that your Committee might provide to those branches with regard to any training programmes that might be organized in the future under the Committee's supervision or with its assistance, with a view to raising the level of competence of the persons employed in those branches.

The PRESIDENT I thank the distinguished Ambassador of Sri Lanka for her statement and for the kind words addressed to the Chair.

I turn to the next speaker on my list, the distinguished representative of South Africa, Ambassador Glaudine Mtshali.

I have come to address this august body today not pretending that Slovakia holds the key to a generally acceptable programme of work.

Yemen has the honour to present the distinguished Committee with some clarifications regarding the recommendations contained in paragraph 7 (d) and (f) of the concluding observations issued in accordance with article 19 of Convention.

Paragraph 7 (d) of the concluding observations recommending that Yemen Take all appropriate measures to abolish de facto incommunicado detention

Mr. Rupel Let me first thank you, Mr. President, and the rest of the Security Council for inviting me and giving me this opportunity to speak before this distinguished group of representatives.

We hope that members will consider our comments objectively. We are fully confident that the recommendations of the report of the national Committee will achieve precisely the results called for in the report of the International Commission.

Our sixth Citizen Media Summit takes us for the first time to South East Asia, where we'll convene two days of public conversations and workshops with bloggers, activists and technologists about the state of citizen media, the Internet and online participation within the venerable walls of the Cebu Provincial Capitol in Cebu City.

In response to your Committee's question concerning paragraph 2 (a), article 143 calls for a prison sentence for anyone who, without permission from the competent authority, recruits persons against a foreign State or commits against such a State other hostile acts likely to expose the Great Jamahiriya to the danger of war.