We therefore express our warmest thanks to France.

For that we are most thankful.

Our sincere thanks go to those who made these pertinent suggestions.

So we are grateful to the Centre for so admirably fulfilling its mission.

We wish to extend our thanks to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

We would also like to express our thanks and appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Adolf Ritter von Wagner.

We also express our thanks for the report of the Secretary General in document A 60 330.

In this respect, we should like to express warm thanks to the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General and the Organization of American States for his inestimable achievement.

Mr. Flores Olea (Mexico) (interpretation from Spanish) We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Mohammed Bedjaoui for his excellent presentation today to the General Assembly of the report on the work of the International Court of Justice.

At the same time, we cannot fail to express our thanks to those countries that have given financial backing to the Lima Centre.

We express our sincere thanks to the Administration of Afghanistan and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who are giving serious attention to those people.

We wish also to express our thanks to the international community, which continues to stand by our side to bolster our democracy and the process of reconciliation of the Salvadorian people.

Expressing our since appreciation to the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations Development Programme for organizing the Seminar,

In that regard, we take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to UNICEF and other international partners for their valuable support and assistance for our endeavours.

We should like to express our thanks and appreciation to the Government and people of Barbados for their generosity in hosting the Conference and in providing such good conference facilities.

As we look ahead in Haiti, we express our thanks for the efforts of Mr. Brahimi, the new Special Representative of the Secretary General, as he begins his duties in Haiti.

Mr. Mahiga (United Republic of Tanzania) We wish first to acknowledge with thanks the welcome extended to my delegation by Ambassador Denisov, Chairman of the Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC).

Warmly congratulate the French speaking countries of Africa which have already ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption

We wish to acknowledge the particular attention given to small island developing States in the section on climate change.

Finally, we would like to express our thanks to all Member States with which we have worked to produce what we believe to be a very good and useful package of draft resolutions, which has received overwhelming support in the Assembly.

Four years after the start of those informal consultations, we wish to express, first of all, our thanks to the Secretary General for his wise initiative and for his report on the consultations, which gives a full account of their evolution in their various phases.

We appreciate and support such efforts.

We again offer him our support in his endeavours.

Once again we express our gratitude to them.

humble and hearty thanks.

I want to acknowledge the efforts of other Governments as well.

We would also like to express our thanks to President Mbeki of South Africa for his tireless efforts to bring peace back to a country that had for a long time been an example of peace and prosperity in the region.

Warmly congratulate the French speaking countries of Africa which, since the adoption of the Cairo Declaration, have ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocols thereto and other universal counter terrorism instruments

We thank the staff members of the Centre against Apartheid for their useful and selfless contribution, and we offer special thanks to Mr. Johan Nordenfelt, Head of the Centre against Apartheid.

But a particular tribute goes to all our colleagues.

We would like to express our appreciation for those efforts.

We express our support for the task of reforming the Organization.

We should like to express our deep gratitude to them.

First of all, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the President of the General Assembly, to the Secretary General and to all Member States for their sincere expressions of condolence and their sympathy upon the cruel loss that struck the Togolese people with the passing of President Eyadema on 5 February 2005.

We would express our sincere thanks to them for the spirit in which they made their contribution.

We wish to express our thanks and appreciation for its breadth and depth, which reflect the nature and extent of the problem of land mines and other explosive devices buried during armed conflicts, both domestic and international.

In this regard, we would like to take the opportunity to express our thanks both to the international community and to the Government of Mauritius for the efforts made to organize the special conference.

There is no harm expressing in principle what our intention is.

We should like to express here our deepest appreciation to France.

We express our great pleasure and satisfaction at this important event.

Our thanks go especially to the members of the Group of African States here in New York who initiated the draft resolution and, at the same time, we wish to express our deep gratitude to all the sponsors and the other members of the General Assembly that have just enabled it to be adopted by consensus.

We offer our sincere thanks.

I should also like to express our gratitude for the holding of this meeting and for the opportunity to address the Council.

We also appreciate the efforts by Mr. Alan Doss, Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, and his briefing.

We therefore support the Geneva efforts to settle the conflict, in spite of doubts about the current plan, and we express special thanks to the Co Chairmen, Lord Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, for the difficult job they are doing.