I also wish to thank your distinguished predecessor, Ambassador Insanally.

Your predecessor, our colleague Mr. Ganev of Bulgaria, carried out his mandate very well.

I would also like to pay high tribute to Mr. Jean Ping, your predecessor, for his distinguished leadership.

Your predecessor as President, Mr. Ganev, subsequently conducted the negotiations with courage and wisdom.

We also take pleasure in thanking your predecessor and commending his efforts during the forty seventh session of the General Assembly.

I am confident that you will carry forward the able legacy left by your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping.

Let me also thank your able predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria, for his outstanding service during the forty seventh session.

I would also like to pay tribute to the excellent work done by your predecessor, Ambassador Adolf Ritter von Wagner of Germany.

Your predecessor, Ambassador von Wagner of Germany, and his colleagues deserve our gratitude for their achievements and dedication last session.

I also wish to congratulate your predecessor, who guided our work admirably during the fifty ninth session.

We should like to thank your predecessor, Mr. Caughley, the Ambassador of New Zealand, for the efforts he deployed during his tenure.

I wish to thank your predecessor, Mr. Chairman, for his efforts in the rationalization and streamlining of the work of this very important Committee.

We thank your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria, for the excellent manner in which he conducted the affairs of the last session of the General Assembly.

I also wish to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Insanally of Guyana, for steering the forty eighth session to a successful conclusion.

May I also extend our thanks to your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, for his successful presidency of the previous session of the Assembly.

I should also like to congratulate your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gabonese Republic, on his commendable work as President at the previous session.

Your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, deserves our full admiration and congratulations on the effectiveness and devotion with which he led the work of the fifty ninth session.

Your predecessor, in his letter of 23 November 1993 (S 26794), informed me that the members of the Council welcomed this decision.

I would be remiss if I did not say how greatly my delegation appreciates the way in which your illustrious predecessor presided over the forty eighth session.

I wish to pay tribute to the sustained effort of your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, and to reiterate to our Secretary General my admiration for his personal and diplomatic skills.

I should also like to congratulate your predecessor, Mr. Samuel Insanally of Guyana, who conducted the business of the forty eighth session in such a masterly and intelligent manner.

I would also like to express our appreciation for the efforts made by your predecessor, Ambassador Baja, the Permanent Representative of the Philippines, in conducting the business of the Council last month.

I also wish to pay tribute to the tireless efforts of your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, for the manner in which he guided the work of the fifty ninth session.

I wish also to congratulate your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria, who successfully directed the Assembly apos s work at its forty seventh session.

Our thanks and congratulations also go to your illustrious predecessor, Mr. Samuel Insanally, for the wisdom with which he guided the work of the forty eighth session.

Our thanks go as well to your distinguished predecessor, the representative of Guyana, Samuel Insanally, who so skilfully presided over the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

Let me also pay tribute to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Jean Ping, for his tireless efforts in the preparation of the world summit.

May I also commend the work of your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, for his remarkable leadership and tenacity in bringing the fifty ninth session to a successful conclusion.

I also wish to express our appreciation of the tireless efforts undertaken by your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, in his judicious and capable management of the previous session.

It is also a pleasure for me to congratulate his predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, on the exemplary manner in which he conducted the work of the preceding session.

I should like to express deep appreciation for the exemplary manner in which your predecessor conducted the work of the Assembly during his tenure last year.

Allow me also to congratulate your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana, on his outstanding stewardship of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

Permit me too to express my delegation apos s thanks and praise for the sterling performance of your immediate predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Samuel Insanally of Guyana.

Allow me, too, to take this opportunity to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador von Wagner, for his outstanding performance during the forty eighth session of the General Assembly.

I should also like to avail myself of this opportunity to thank your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, for the way he conducted the work of the General Assembly during a difficult period.

Your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, guided the proceedings of the forty seventh session of our General Assembly with a competence and effectiveness that deserve our appreciation and gratitude.

The wisdom and spirit of compromise with which your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, conducted the proceedings at the last session earned the full appreciation of my delegation.

We extend a deserving tribute to your predecessor, Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria, for the efficient and able manner in which he handled the affairs of the Assembly during the past year.

I am delighted to take this opportunity to convey to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Samuel Insanally, our satisfaction at the exemplary way in which he presided over the work of last year apos s session of the General Assembly.

I also wish to commend your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana, for the excellent and able manner in which he conducted the work of the forty eighth session.

May I also express our deep appreciation to your distinguished predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Insanally of Guyana, for so capably guiding our work during a most eventful year.

Allow me also to place on record our appreciation of the effective leadership that your predecessor as President, His Excellency Mr. Samuel Insanally of Guyana, provided for the Organization during his stewardship.

I am confident you will carry forward the high tradition set by your predecessor, Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana, to whom we owe our deep appreciation.

Mr. President, allow me to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Samuel Insanally, for the outstanding work he accomplished throughout his mandate, as well as all the members of his General Committee.

I should like also to express my most sincere congratulations to your predecessor, Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana, for the competence and skill with which he led the work of the previous session.