Regarding the area of peace and security, we fully endorse the call for a new security consensus.

Denmark supports almost all of them wholeheartedly.

It fully supports the work of the Independent Electoral Commission.

First, we fully support the recommendation of the Secretary General not to expand the veto power.

The EU fully supports Mr. Annan's recommendation in that area.

I urge both Ethiopia and Eritrea to give the idea their full support.

The European Union fully supports the efforts by the countries of the region, as well as those undertaken by regional groups such as the Organization of American States.

We also strongly support the underlying principles of the Jakarta Declaration, to which His Excellency the President of Indonesia referred this morning.

Greece fully associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.

We fully support the peaceful resolution of all our disputes on the basis of international law and the United Nations Charter.

Costa Rica fully supports the work of the International Court of Justice as the best mechanism for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

We fully support efforts in the area of natural disaster mitigation, especially in the light of recent global trends.

This is why we support its further strengthening and universalization.

Mr. García González (El Salvador) (spoke in Spanish) El Salvador fully endorses the statement of the Rio Group on this item.

We also fully associate ourselves with the intervention made yesterday by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia on behalf of the States members of the Group of Eastern European States.

We fully agree with the recommendations contained in the Secretary General's report concerning the role of the International Criminal Court.

That is why we support the proposal for an effective human rights council.

Iceland fully supports the strong emphasis on the role of human dignity comprising human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

My country fully associates itself with the efforts made by the different export control regimes to address the challenges I have just described.

New Zealand completely supports the need for the consensus rule when substantive negotiations on matters of national security are being held.

Ms. Núñez Mordoche (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish) First of all, my delegation fully supports the statement made by the Chairman of the Group of 77.

In this connection, the Philippines throws its full support behind the Secretary General's proposal to carry out a comprehensive review of the implementation of the standards over the next several weeks.

My delegation fully supports any initiative by the OPCW to encourage those States to join the Convention.

That is why we support the idea of creating a United Nations environmental body.

We support the implementation of the United Nations Action Plan to Prevent Genocide.

For that reason, together with the European Union, we firmly support efforts for reform that would adapt the United Nations to new conditions.

We fully endorse their notion that the working methods of the Security Council should be consistently adapted so as to increase the involvement of States that are not members of the Council.

We must resolutely support the reconstruction of national capacities to strengthen the rule of law and the exercise of civil rights and to help the people overcome poverty.

We therefore support the renewal of the mandate of the Informal Consultative Process for the next three years.

Fourthly, the United Kingdom fully supports the Special Representative's emphasis on the importance of restructuring the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

India is fully supportive of the proposal and will be happy to engage constructively in discussions in the General Assembly on its establishment.

Norway fully supports the World Youth Report's demand for special attention to integrating youth who are victims of armed conflicts.

4. Supports fully the efforts of the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, in accordance with the Peace Agreement and subsequent Peace Implementation Council declarations, and calls upon all parties to cooperate fully and in good faith with him

As for the transfer of cases, it is good to hear that there is full support for the principle of transferring those involving lower and middle rank indictees.

His country fully supported the transformation of UNEP into a more powerful and institutionalized framework for promoting environmental activities.

Likewise, we fully support the recommended firmness to ensure compliance with the embargoes adopted by the Security Council.

Concerned about the plight of thousands of families of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and supporting fully the efforts of the International Commission on Missing Persons to resolve the fate of the missing persons,

Furthermore, we support the rapid conclusion of the Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism by the end of this year.

There were disagreements about the approach to the Israeli Palestinian conflict but there was full support for the establishment of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Ms. González (Cuba) said that her delegation fully supported the implementation of the programme of activities for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People for the promotion and protection of the legitimate rights of indigenous people.

The representative of the African Union (AU) stated that the AU fully supported the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the exercise to the right of self determination and independence by the populations of the remaining Non Self Governing Territories.

We believe it is the primary and primordial responsibility of each State to protect its population and for that reason we fully support the concept of the responsibility to protect.

That African draft is our draft, and, as I said yesterday, we cannot support any other draft only this one.

These States are all fully behind the sanctions regime and their presentations have provided useful examples of best practice as well as highlighting problems with implementation that affect all States.

We support that and other recommendations in the report.