Likewise, we would like to recognize the efforts of the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.

In this regard, we would like to recognize the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which cooperates with Member States through direct technical assistance to put into practice international standards on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

In fairness, we would like to note that the acknowledged gap between relief and development has been to a degree narrowed down, albeit modestly, by the recent inclusion of funds for disarmament and demobilization as part of the assessed budget.

We also wish to acknowledge the important coordination role played by the World Health Organization and the valuable framework for road safety action provided by the Organization's global report on road traffic injury prevention (A 60 181).

PM And we should point out that he works with you as well at the paper.

We would like to note the timeliness of the recommendation concerning the establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission.

Such flexibility was not easy to offer when domestic legislation was already in force, and for that reason, the flexibility and the concessions had to be mentioned particularly.

In that regard, we would like to note that the issue of improving the Council's working methods should be addressed in greater depth on the basis both of the discussions of the Open ended Working Group and of other interesting contributions by various delegations, among which I would like to highlight the document circulated by Switzerland.

If I may turn to south Lebanon, we are pleased to note the overall calm that seems to have prevailed along the Blue Line for some time now.

We are pleased to note the marked progression in the caseload of the Court since its inception.

We should acknowledge the contribution that such groups can make and look for ways to cooperate with them.

That is certainly a method of work that we would encourage.

I think it is also important here to acknowledge the response from the public and private sectors around the world, including in Australia.

We want to hear from all readers, contributors, friends.

There is one element the resolution about which we would like to express some thoughts.

In that regard, we would like to make the following points.

The second question we would ask concerns the following.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

In the light of Mr. Egeland's comments, we would like to raise the following points.

There are two basic elements of the briefing to which we should like to refer.

In this context, we would like to emphasize a number of points.

In that context, we would like to highlight several neglected issues.

We must also acknowledge that international non governmental organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross system also play very important roles in peacebuilding.

Finally, we would ask that youth be involved in processes established to resolve that problem.

We would therefore like to appeal to the international community to urgently address the shortfalls.

So we would like to express our doubt as to whether it is useful to discuss your proposal any further.

I'm a mathematician. We would like to be able to understand better.

We would like to thank Tadamun Social Society (TAAS) for their tremendous help.

The Assembly is what we, as Member States, want it to be.

At the outset, we wish to reaffirm our solidarity and unity with Africa.

In that regard, we wish to make some preliminary suggestions concerning the way forward.

We also wish to recall that a similar resolution was adopted without a vote last year.

While our concerns about the Court have not changed, we would like to move beyond divisiveness on the issue.

Do people come to you with projects and say, We want you to do this!

We also wish to express our strong support for the idea of creating a Peacebuilding Commission.

However, we would like to make a statement with regard to certain points in that resolution.

Events since then have vindicated our position, which we wish to reiterate again today.

We wish to recognize and appreciate your personal presence and that of Ministers Phil Goff of New Zealand and Mr. Michael Ambühl of Switzerland this morning.

We know that many will not return, and we do not wish to be biased in that regard.

I do not think that is the message we want to send with the September summit in view.

While we are not going to re submit these now, we would like to reaffirm our position.

But, first, we would like to draw the attention of the Security Council to some principled conclusions.

As we have indicated in our report, we want to interact much more closely with the AU.

We wish also to highlight the special constitutional nature of the Venezuelan State as a popular and participative democracy.

We would like to ban deployment in space of any type of offensive weapon.