35. UNAVEM II personnel have continued to serve with exemplary dedication.

Buddha said, My followers should not accept my teaching out of devotion but rather your own experiment .

Our peacekeepers have earned commendation from the international community for their dedication, discipline and professionalism.

Japan is encouraged by the unflagging dedication of the Organization of American States and the United Nations to the cause of Haitian democracy.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to Mr. Wlosowicz for his dedication and effective leadership of UNFICYP.

I should like also to express to your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, our gratitude for the dedication with which he conducted the work of the General Assembly at its forty seventh session.

I should like to take this opportunity to express my profound appreciation for Ms. Anstee apos s dedicated service to the cause of peace and reconciliation in Angola.

Presidents Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi deserve a high tribute for their dedication and their contribution to the cause of peace and national reconciliation.

I would like to thank you most warmly and sincerely for your dedication to the task at hand, and for the constructive and cooperative manner in which you have contributed to the work of this session.

The convening of the Conference is to a great extent an achievement that should be attributed to the dedication and persistent adherence of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) to the cause of the special environmental and developmental needs of small island States.

Great Women of the 21st Century (reserved for women whose accomplishments and influence are the result of superior dedication and professional integrity, 16 May 2004) awarded by the American Biographical Institute

Ambassador Bo Kjellén deserves our gratitude for the devotion, experience and inexhaustible patience he demonstrated in leading a particularly dynamic Bureau, with the assistance of an effective secretariat led by Ambassador Hama Arba Diallo.

20. In conclusion, I should like to pay a tribute to all UNAVEM II personnel who continue to serve with dedication to advance the peace process in Angola under difficult circumstances.

With them I see many of the new generation of negotiators who followed in their footsteps and who, encouraged by the achievements of their predecessors, brought renewed dedication, creativity and energy to the task of removing the remaining obstacles to a universal convention.

The Tribunal is indeed fortunate in having had a dedicated and energetic Acting Deputy Prosecutor in place, but there are matters which, pursuant to the statute and the rules of procedure and evidence, should be handled by the Prosecutor.

To the Secretary General, Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, I also want to express my Government apos s satisfaction at the devotion and energy he has shown during the first year of his difficult mandate, whose principal objective was the constant search for adequate solutions to the problems that afflict all mankind.

Recalling the tireless dedication and enthusiasm of the late Executive Secretary, the President of the COP at its tenth session said that the best tribute that delegates could pay to her work was to redouble their efforts to reach consensus and make further progress in combatting global warming.