The PRESIDENT (translated from Spanish) Thank you very much for your statement.

The PRESIDENT (translated from Spanish) Thank you very much, Ambassador, for your statement.

The PRESIDENT (translated from Spanish) Thank you very much for your statement, Ambassador Levanon.

Pray continue your very interesting statement.

Your statement and your strong support contributed to the success of the Conference.

Let me also express our thanks to you, Mr. President, for your opening statement, delivered yesterday.

May I also convey to you, Mr. Chairman, our congratulations and warmest wishes and my thanks for your statements.

You also referred to the positive attitude of the Palestinian entity in your statement, in spite of acts of violence which took place .

I should like to refer to your statement of 9 November on behalf of the Security Council (S 26717).

We have listened carefully to your statement and the message from the Secretary General of the United Nations addressed to the Conference.

Most of these achievements were brilliantly illustrated in your statement, Mr. Chairman, and in the statement by the Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs, Mr. Nandasiri Jasentuliyana.

The PRESIDENT On behalf of the Conference, Minister, I would like to thank you very much indeed for your important statement and for the importance attached by your Government to the work of this Conference.

The PRESIDENT On behalf of the Conference, I want to thank you, Minister, very warmly for your important statement and advice and also for the importance your Government attaches to the work of this Conference.

As you said in your statement, Mr. Chairman, there will be around 9,000 polling booths throughout the country on the day of the elections.

Permit me also to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your highly instructive and extensive statement on events which have taken place in the peaceful uses of outer space during the past year.

As you suggested in your opening statement, Mr. Chairman, the practical benefits of space technology and its applications must provide concrete benefits to all countries.

Mr. Neil (Jamaica) I would like, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, to thank you Mr. President, for your opening statement this morning, which has set the tone and established the focus for this debate.

You yourself, Mr. Chairman, have taken a leadership role in this context when, in your statement at the beginning of last year apos s session of the Committee, you highlighted these issues and concluded

Mr. Marin Bosch (Mexico) (interpretation from Spanish) We have listened with all due attention to your statement, Mr. Chairman, and to the statement just made by the Secretary General.

Mr. Somavia (Chile) (interpretation from Spanish) I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for your introductory remarks and for your reference to your opening statement to the General Assembly, in which you so clearly signalled the importance of the discussion we are beginning today.

Mr. President, your opening statement 22 days ago concluded with the visionary challenge, quot We the peoples united for a better world quot (A 48 PV.1).

Mr. Abdelaziz (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic) At the outset, let me express our appreciation for the reports of the Secretary General on the agenda items under discussion. We endorse the statements made by the representative of Jamaica on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the representative of Namibia on behalf of the Group of African States. We also thank you, Sir, for your opening statement at this meeting, which made a unique contribution to our debate.

The Proliferation Security Initiative, an activity which you named in your opening statement, is a network of cooperation aimed at building national capacities to act with speed and effectiveness, and in partnership, to stop WMD proliferation.

You also provided me with a copy of your statement on the progress of work in the Commission at its fifteenth session (CLCS 44), paragraphs 12 to 16 of which reflect the discussions and the decision of the Commission on the matter.

In this light, we fully share the hope expressed in your statement yesterday that this Committee can make substantive progress in promoting international cooperation in space activities so that outer space is explored and exploited for truly peaceful purposes and for the benefit and in the interests of all humanity.

And they depend too much upon history, upon philosophy, upon religion, upon culture, upon politics.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

On, my people, on.

Moreover, India is working to safeguard its naval superiority over China.

We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

What for? Your work.

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If you can drop this recipe on the map on a sandy soil, on a clay soil, on a steep slope, on flat soil, you put those different recipes if you combine them, out of that comes a business plan, comes a work plan, and you can optimize it for the amount of labor you have available or for the amount of fertilizer you have, and you can do it.

It has speakers on it. And it has cameras over the surface of it.

Case by case project approval

On cement, on grass, on sand.

You eat on the floor, you sleep on the floor, you work on the floor.

Get the antenna, get the antenna, get the antenna.

The Department must focus on the overall picture, not on individual activities.

The sun is overhead, maximum heating, maximum evaporation, maximum clouds, maximum rainfall, maximum opportunities for reproduction.

Even of these you may eat any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.