We welcome you to our club.

On the whole, we support the conclusions and the recommendations contained in the report.

We also welcome Ms. Kawaguchi.

We welcome and appreciate these developments.

We therefore welcome the current consultations.

We welcome that important development.

We welcome its recent success in this area.

We welcome the initiative to establish a Democracy Fund.

That is very welcome.

We welcome private sector contributions to development and humanitarian relief

Such proposals are welcome, and we support the objectives specified.

We welcome any information on their whereabouts.

We welcome them too to this meeting of the Conference on Disarmament.

We welcome the efforts that have been made in that regard, be they in the sponsorship, witnessing or guaranteeing of agreements or in the follow up to their implementation. We also welcome and request all financial and technical support for advancing our efforts.

HA The people who are coming to us, we are welcoming.

We welcome the mobilization of international efforts to combat proliferation.

We therefore welcome the balanced approach that the Secretary General has taken in his political assessment and recommendations.

We first welcome the emphasis the Secretary General has placed on development in his report.

We also welcome Under Secretary General Abe to the CD today.

The document serves as a welcome follow up of the outcome of the 2005 world summit.

We welcome the report of the Secretary General on women and peace and security.

In general, we welcome the increased focus on human rights.

In that connection, we welcome the proposal by the Government of Germany to hold a third international conference on early warning to discuss aspects of the global early warning system for waterborne meteorological and geological disasters. We call upon countries to actively promote that initiative.

We also welcome NATO's ongoing contribution to achieving security throughout the country.

We therefore welcome the opportunity to participate in this discussion under the relevant agenda items.

Therefore, we welcome the Secretary General's clear reference to that shortcoming in his report.

Furthermore, we hail recent initiatives in the areas of aid and debt relief.

In summary, we welcome the outcome document as a reasonable balance of issues overall.

We also welcome the decision of the Government of Mexico to ratify the Rome Statute.

We welcome the fact that the first former Guantánamo detainee is facing criminal charges in New York.

We welcome the progress registered towards achieving peace in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Iraq and, lately, in the Korean peninsula.

We also welcome the high participation by women in the elections and the high representation of women in the new parliament.

We welcome in that regard adoption of resolution 59 313 entitled A strengthened and revitalized General Assembly .

In that respect, we welcome the participation for the first time of Kosovo Serbs in the relevant working group.

I welcome your initiative, Mr. President, to convene this public debate on the situation in Haiti.

We welcome the agreement reached in the past few hours with regard to the reform of the Organization.

It is in the context of coordinating resource mobilization that we welcome the proposal to establish a standing fund for peacebuilding.

Welcome actions being taken by affected country Parties to enhance the implementation of the obligations of the Convention

We would welcome CD partners' views on this informal suggestion.

It is endemic to Germany.

In western Germany and in the newly privatized farms in eastern Germany, family farms predominate.

The state was later renamed to Baden and became a founding state of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, today simply Germany) in 1949.

In that connection, we very much welcome the thoughts outlined by Poland.

We, too, welcome the presence of the Minister of Serbia and Montenegro here this morning.

It is good to welcome Mr. Covic back, and I thank him for his intervention.