I wanted to praise you, as you were so incredible.

You're to be congratulated indeed.

You're to be congratulated, Mr. Shimelplatzer. Thank you.

I wanna congratulate you. It was touching.

I heard that you were discharged. Just wanted to say congrats.

My way of saying congrats! pic.twitter.com eCY82pszAd Abhijit Bhaduri ( AbhijitBhaduri) October 13, 2016

Mr. STREULI (Switzerland) (translated from French) Mr. President, first of all I would like to congratulate you on your appointment as President of this Conference.

Mr. ROCHA PARANHOS (Brazil) Mr. President, like others, I would like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the CD today.

Mr. JAZAIRY (Algeria) Mr. President, I should like to extend to you my congratulations as you take up these functions, and I should like to congratulate the Ambassador of Nigeria for the wonderful efforts that he made in order to get our Conference to move in the right direction.