According to Ambassador Keating,

I now give the floor to the representative of Japan, Ambassador Mine.

I now give the floor to the representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Skotnikov.

We are grateful to Ambassador Insanally for his personal leadership in that initiative.

This was done under the able stewardship of Ambassador Anton Thalmann of Switzerland.

I would also like to express our appreciation to Ambassador De La Sablière and to the French delegation.

On behalf of the Conference and on my own behalf, I should like to wish Ambassador Heinsberg and his family much success and happiness in the future.

We wish Ambassador Heinsberg every success in his new endeavours on behalf of his great country, Germany.

I also wish to take this opportunity to tell Ambassador Valdés how much we appreciate his work on the ground.

I should also like to extend to Ambassador Samuel Insanally the congratulations of Ecuador on his brilliant performance during the last session.

We also express our thanks to Ambassador von Wagner of Germany for his stewardship of the Committee last year.

We also congratulate Ambassador Wang Guangya for the successful Chinese presidency in April.

We pay a special tribute to the dedicated chairmanship of Ambassador José Luis Jesus of Cape Verde.

I am confident that Ambassador Hohenfellner apos s skilful leadership will guide this session to a fruitful conclusion.

We are also grateful to Ambassador Adechi and the entire delegation of Benin for their work presiding over the Council in February.

Ms. JANJUA (Pakistan) On behalf of the Pakistan delegation, we would also like to wish the best to Ambassador Heinsberg in his future endeavours.

The President I now give the floor to Ambassador Sardenberg to respond to some of the comments made during the debate.

I also wish to convey my thanks to Ambassador Jesus of Cape Verde for his wise leadership of the work of the Preparatory Commission.

Our appreciation goes to Ambassador Kjellén and Ambassador Diallo for their efforts and contribution.

We praise the capable leadership of Ambassador Richard Butler, Permanent Representative of Australia, who has been successfully steering the work of the Committee.

After the initial visit, the Ambassador or other Swedish diplomats were permitted to visit the complainant on a number of occasions.

We are convinced that, under the outstanding leadership of Ambassador César Mayoral, the Argentine team will discharge its responsibilities to the fullest.

I also wish to use my access to the microphone to wish Ambassador Volker Heinsberg all the best in his new and important mission.

Among so many of them, I would like in particular to express our sincere gratitude to Ambassador Satya Nandan of Fiji.

I should also like to express our appreciation to Ambassador Samuel Insanally, who conducted the proceedings of the last session with great skill.

We would like to pay a warm tribute to Ambassador Samuel Insanally for his initiative in conducting the World Hearings.

On behalf of the Conference on Disarmament, and on my behalf, I wish Ambassador Markku Reimaa and Mrs. Reimaa success and happiness in the future.

Mr. ELARABY (Egypt) (interpretation from Arabic) I should like at the outset to express my delegation apos s appreciation to Ambassador Eliasson on the success of his outstanding and tireless efforts.

We express our deep gratitude to Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana for his admirable work during his presidency.

The President (interpretation from French) I now call on Ambassador Bo Kjellén of Sweden, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee.

In August 2003, he expressed to the Ambassador, as he had done before, his satisfaction with the medical care received.

The President I now give the floor to Ambassador Mihnea Ioan Motoc, Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004).

Like other colleagues we would also extend our best wishes to Ambassador Volker Heinsberg for his future career and for his future life.

It is a particular pleasure for me to extend to Ambassador Insanally my sincere congratulations on his well deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

I should like to express to the Committee our sincere appreciation of its dedicated service, under the able and dynamic leadership of Ambassador Cissé of Senegal.

We express our deep appreciation to Ambassador Jesus, Chairman of the Commission, for his wise leadership and unrelenting efforts as he guided the Commission apos s deliberations.

Allow me to express our sincere appreciation to the Committee for its dedicated service under the able and dynamic leadership of Ambassador Cissé of Senegal.

I would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Ambassador Denisov and the Russian delegation for their able stewardship of the Council last month.

The Sierra Leone delegation would like to commend the pioneering efforts of the Preparatory Commission, under the able chairmanship of Ambassador Jesus of Cape Verde.

Last but not least, my thanks go to the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa, Ambassador Nyakyi.

We continue to hope that this Conference will succeed under the able chairmanship of Ambassador Nandan and we look forward to cooperating with him in the coming months.

I also wish to express deserved appreciation to Ambassador Samuel Insanally for the manner in which he discharged his duties as President during the last session.

I wish also to convey our compliments to Mr. Samuel Insanally of Guyana on his exemplary and able leadership during his presidency of the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

The President (spoke in Spanish) We are grateful to Ambassador Oshima for urging the international community not to abandon the fight against terrorism and to support the Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC).

Let me express our gratitude to Ambassador Ashraf Qazi in his important role as Special Representative of the Secretary General for Iraq.