We must seek to consolidate what we have already achieved.

That's what we've achieved as a species.

What we achieved in England turned out to be a critical blow.

And we'll fly it, we hope, with the same success that we had last night when we did the practice.

Your challenge is, can you match what we achieved?

I am sure that the next Bureau will be able to build on what we have achieved today.

Address the question Did we get there and with what success?

It's almost impossible to believe the progress we've made since 1994.

Yet despite the notable progress we have made, the situation in Georgia today is not ideal.

A treaty would put the capstone on the advances we have already made towards peaceful relations between our countries.

Without their active participation in decision making and implementation, most of our achievements would have been beyond our reach.

We cannot be satisfied with what we have attained until now we must do much more.

We therefore expect that, with respect to what we have achieved this week, the agenda items will have to go through that final process of adoption.

Despite the increased public awareness today, we cannot rest on our laurels.

This notwithstanding, the basic framework is in place, and this is our main achievement today.

If there is one thing we accomplished and none other crossing this Rubicon should be enough.

As I said, although we can commend ourselves on what we have achieved, we should realize also that a great deal also lies ahead.

As a basic framework of our future endeavour, it is imperative to build upon what we have achieved in the course of our discussions within the Working Group.

We should also draw inspiration from the progress we have achieved in other fields of disarmament and in the promotion of peace and security.

I began yesterday by suggesting that we might consider giving ourselves more time to reflect on what we have achieved.

Representatives have already received copies of the report of the Commission, to which we will issue an amendment taking into account the progress that we have made.

It is the most opportune time, on the threshold of a new millennium, to take stock of what we have achieved, and where we have failed, with a sense of realism and vision.

We negotiated with them during the course of the last three months with a positive, constructive and flexible attitude.

I believe that we should capitalize on the success we have had so far and go just one step further and complete the journey.

That reform seeks to strengthen and expand democracy, to preserve our hard won economic stability, and to reduce poverty.

New Zealand believes that the first priority of the Register must be to consolidate what we have achieved and to secure the widest possible participation.

Progress has been made across a broader front than on any other single occasion in the 60 year history of the Organization.

That is one of the other reasons why we believe that we might want to wait until 2006 to hold a substantive discussion on what we have achieved.

Now the history that we've achieved is that we've grown at 2.0 percent per year over the whole period, 1891 to 2007, and remember it's been a little bit negative since 2007.

Again, it goes back to not having had political and security progress commensurate to that made in the humanitarian area.

Let me also not forget to mention the many dedicated members of the Secretariat who for many years have laboured before and behind the scenes to move us closer to our present success.

In seeking new disarmament and arms control goals, we should not neglect the need to strengthen and ensure the effective implementation of what we already have.

Only together can we succeed and build on what we have achieved in the World Programme of Action for Youth.

We are satisfied with what we have achieved in this regard, given that, in slightly more than one year, the Dominican Republic has begun to be well on the way to recovery.

Let us not allow ourselves to become complacent, but, instead, strive relentlessly towards achieving greater progress.

The preservation and enhancement of what has been achieved so far in this vital area depend on our readiness to strictly fulfil the responsibilities and duties emanating from the Barbados documents.

In the Central American region, our fundamental interest is to raise the standard of living of our peoples in order to consolidate the progress we have made in the fields of democratization and peacemaking.

At that time we must undertake an honest appraisal of what we have achieved and where we are failing short, and we must determine the way forward towards achieving the full implementation of the Declaration of Commitment.

We must now also address the need to profit without delay from the momentum we have gained, in order to achieve progress in other areas of the Arab Israeli negotiations.

We should therefore rather focus on how to achieve success in Abuja, so that our progress can continue and we can plan for the return of people.

This is as true for the NPT as for the Convention on biological and toxin weapons and our newest negotiating success the Convention on chemical weapons.

Nonetheless, we are not content to rest on our laurels. We continue to look to new and creative methods that might increase the efficiency of our proceedings and reduce the costs of our operations without sacrificing the quality of our work.

My delegation would like to take this opportunity to emphasize the importance of what we achieved regarding the responsibility to protect in the outcome document adopted at the world summit in September.

It's been a long time coming but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

What have we achieved over the last five years? At a global level, although considerable progress has been made in achieving many of the goals, progress has been disproportionate across regions and countries.