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

Once more, we meet in the shadow of terrorism.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

We meet once again in the First Committee in an effort to address concerns of international peace and security inasmuch as they are related to disarmament, non proliferation and the threat posed both by weapons of mass destruction and by conventional arms.

We are now gathered once again to assess the achievements and shortcomings in fulfilling our commitment to address, comprehensively, the triple challenge of advancing development, providing security to all our citizens and consolidating democracy and respect for human rights.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) Three years after our heads of State or Government adopted the Monterrey Consensus, we are gathering again to examine how far we have come in the process of accomplishing our commitments.

We meet today to say to the millions of victims of the war that we have not forgotten their slaughter, to say to the survivors of the war's atrocities that we have not forgotten their suffering and to say to the Allied soldiers that we have not forgotten their sacrifice and that we will never forget.

Today, we all gather here to express to them our sympathy and solidarity and to prove once again that, when calamity strikes, we are united in protecting and assisting our fellow human beings in need.

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.