Shortly before we convened here for the millennium review summit, an important meeting of Christian leaders took place in Washington, D.C.

We are gathered here because we know that young people are our future.

Today, we again meet to search for means to activate previously concluded agreements.

If there is any one of you who wishes to have a meeting on Thursday, that meeting can take place under the presidency of my deputy.

We will also meet with members of a Romani rap group.

Once more, we meet in the shadow of terrorism.

We can all make a decision to come together and pick up the balls and run with the balls that governments have dropped.

We meet at a propitious time to affirm our resolve and interest in achieving peace and security for our peoples.

We are gathered here to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations.

If there is no request to have a meeting on Thursday, we will not have a meeting on Thursday.

The Secretary General We meet at the end of a historic week for the United Nations.

Today we are meeting here to commemorate that decision and to review our actions, celebrate our progress and share our concerns.

We are gathered here on an island today, on Manhattan, but it is an island intimately connected to the rest of the world.

President Urusemal We gather this year against the backdrop of many recent natural disasters.

We must, therefore, summon political will and assume moral responsibility to work truly for the benefit of our peoples on whose behalf we gather at the United Nations year after year.

President Obasanjo I am very pleased that we are meeting once more, at the summit level, to discuss financing for development three years after Monterrey.

We meet in the wake of the High level Plenary Meeting, where bold decisions were made to promote implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

And when we would gather as fellows, she would push us to think about how the elders in Native American culture make decisions.

So when we meet in my philosophy class in his prison and I say, In this class, we will discuss the foundations of ethics, Tony interrupts me.

Today, we are meeting to discuss matters of international security and disarmament, at a time of numerous international and regional differences on arms related issues.

Let us try together to determine what we want to get moving after 3 April so that the next time we meet, we will be able to say that, despite the problems, we have made a decisive impact in trying to find solutions to what has been bedevilling the West African region for so long.

My delegation is pleased that we are meeting in the plenary of the General Assembly to discuss the report of the Secretary General entitled In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all .

We gather there after the boring Thanksgiving family dinner or the family feasts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they intended to harm me.

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

As we gather here today, let us not forget the Beatrice Gakubas of the world, who stand poised to transform their countries.

Today, 10 years after the Programme's adoption, we are meeting to review the situation of youth and the achievements made in implementing the World Programme of Action.

We are gathered here to honor our great hero, Rudolf Hess, for his brave attempt to save Germany and Europe from Bolshevism and Jewry during the Second World War.

It is against this backdrop that we, as world leaders, are meeting here to find the best strategy for enhancing domestic capacity to address issues such as good governance.

As we meet here today, humanitarian workers and the African Union mission are on the front line of the international community's response to the Darfur crisis.

President Kagame We meet this week to mark the passage of 60 eventful years in the life of the United Nations and to reaffirm our belief in its principles.

Mr. Jenie (Indonesia) Once again we have assembled to review and discuss the work done by the United Nations over the last year to attain the objectives of the Charter.

As we gather here, in part to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of an international Organization established to bring hope to the peoples of the world, we cannot avoid asking some hard questions.

And fortunately, we've been able, as IUCN, to team up with the Census of Marine Life and many of the scientists working there to actually try to translate much of this information to policymakers.

We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Al Nasser (Qatar) (spoke in Arabic) As we meet at the mid point of the 2001 2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence for the Children of the World, we are heartened by the genesis of a global movement of peaceseekers and peacebuilders.

Your departure came too soon, before we had our fill of your presence, before we understood the reality of your existence, and even before we were able to understand you.

i am zambian too and after watching this i think we need to come up together and try to fight for our country and not just watch the video and let go we need to come up with something,we are not going to say MMD OR PF HAVE DONE THIS ,,we can stand up and let our voices be heard ..

Mr. Bhattarai (Nepal) We are meeting here today to evaluate the progress made in the implementation of the 15 priority areas in the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond.

It was the United States at that time that made that suggestion, and the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) objected, and then the representative of the United Kingdom said Let us meet separately to resolve that issue .

As we meet today, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction is being held in Kobe, Japan, with a view to launching a new framework for action to increase the world's resilience in the event of natural disasters.

We gather here on the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations, confronted with the daunting and ongoing challenge of making this world in which we all live better for us, our children and our children's children.

We are meeting here today to discuss ways and means of mitigating to the greatest extent possible the impact of the substantial damage suffered by the affected countries. We cannot remain idle, waiting for similar disasters to happen.

I am honoured to address this body, particularly as we at perhaps the most promising gathering of the international community come together on the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations to review the progress we have made in addressing the daunting challenges that face us all as inhabitants of this planet.

As we meet here today, the dramatic increase in oil prices is threatening to roll back growth possibilities in many African nations, worsening their internal and external imbalances.