It s a price we have to accept for the things that happened in Syria.

We feel honoured to have been admitted as an observer member of the Committee on 11 November 2003.

Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) marked, in our view, our acceptance and endorsement of a different mindset about women in peace and security.

We gratefully accept the offer of the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to host the Sixteenth Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and Government in 2006.

We also gratefully accept the offer of the Government of the Republic of Chile to host the Seventeenth Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and Government in 2007.

One of the most far reaching achievements of the summit, as many countries have acknowledged, is our collective acceptance that there is a responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

Although we accept the principle established in the Monterrey Consensus that each country is responsible for its own development, that principle ceases to be valid if countries do not possess the resources needed to implement the MDGs.

Our confidence in the Court and in its continuing ability to render considered judgments on complex international legal issues is reflected in our acceptance of the Court's compulsory jurisdiction, in accordance with article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court.

In response to the question from the representative of Jordan, at this stage I believe it would serve a purpose if members were also to discuss how they would guide me with regard to proceeding after we accept, even if on an ad referendum basis, the first proposal, the one on nuclear weapons.