Congratulations on your face.

Congratulations, you have won!

Mr. João, congratulations.

Let's get out there and give her our congratulations!

We also wish to extend our congratulations to the President and the other members of the Bureau on your election.

Mr. CYNKIN (United States of America) Congratulations on your assumption, Mr. President.

Marriage is contracted on the mutual desire of the prospective spouses.

Mr. Smith (Belize) We congratulate the President of the General Assembly on the assumption of his office.

We express our sincere congratulations to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of his accession to the Spanish throne.

This also applies to their status within marriage and their freedom to enter into marriage.

Mr. Kryzhanivsky (Ukraine) I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you, Ambassador Choi, on your assumption of the chairmanship of the Committee.

Ms. WHELAN (Ireland) Congratulations or commiserations, Mr. President, whichever is most appropriate.

I wish to express, on behalf of the delegation of Grenada, warm congratulations to the Co Chairpersons on their election and on steering these deliberations so efficiently.

Marriage to a foreign man or a change in the husband's nationality during marriage will have no effect on the woman's nationality without her consent.

We express our congratulations and best wishes for an equally successful term to the incoming members the Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia.

Persons could also not be forced to marry.

Under s3(4) of the Marriage Act (Cap 60) it merely requires the marriage to fulfill any pre marital requirements of the custom, and this can cause problems.

Mr. Ismail (Somalia) It gives me great pleasure to address this assembly of world leaders and to present our sincere congratulations to the Co Chairpersons on their well deserved election.

Mr. Manis (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic) I am pleased to extend to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations and appreciation on your election to the chairmanship of this important Committee.

Registration of marriages

Marital Status

Marriage and Family

Early marriage

Forced marriage

There are now firm rules concerning common law marriage, so the institute of marriage is no longer the only recognised form of cohabitation.

Marriage in South Korea is similar to that in the West, but has unique features of its own, especially due to the influence of Korean Confucianism.

Apart from these measures, the Government has also initiated a pre marriage programme to prepare the future couples for married life and child raising.

Some have reportedly been forced into marriage with their abductors.

The severity of the punishment varies, depending on the role a person played in the marriage.

The consequences of the dissolution of a marriage by divorce would be as follows

Mr. Akram (Pakistan) Let me begin by extending our warm felicitations to the United Kingdom delegation on assuming the presidency of the Council for this closing month of the year.

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

The Sino Russian Marriage

This includes marriage.

Early and forced marriage.

Marriage and divorce

Vietnamese citizens, men and women alike, have the right to retain their Vietnamese nationality after marriage, divorce or annulment of illegal marriage with foreigners.

A minister of religion of a church, congregation or association of congregations who is granted the right to contract marriages by the Minister of Regional Affairs is equal to a vital statistics office upon performance of the functions related to the contraction of marriages and the minister of religion has the right to register marriages and issue marriage certificates.

f) dissolution of marriage must be decided by the courts and for reasons set out by the law. Legal sanctions are being proposed for individuals who force a child under 18 years old to marry.

The bill on matrimonial dispositions, successions and regimes has been pending approval by the Council of Ministers and the Parliament for more than five years.

Although not practiced often, some widows are forced into marriage, usually to a close kinsman of her husband, upon his death.

Moreover, certain couples prefer to forego the imposed religious marriage because it contradicts their perceptions of marriage and marry abroad.

Ms. Odyakmaz (Turkey) said that for a marriage to be legal in Turkey it must take place before a civil official acting as witness.

This type of normative approach actually presents forced and repeated marriages.

16.15 Registration of marriages is contained in s1(5) of the Marriage Act (Cap 60).