I extend to you, sir, my personal congratulations and those of the Tribunal on your being elected President of the General Assembly.

I would like, first of all, to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the important position of Chairman.

I also wish to extend warm congratulations to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her victory in the presidential election.

I would also like to extend to you our warm congratulations on your accession to your high office.

Mr. Ba'Omar (Oman) (spoke in Arabic) At the outset, Sir, allow me to extend warmest congratulations on behalf of my delegation upon your election as Chairman of this important Committee.

Mrs. Laohaphan (Thailand) As I am taking the floor for the first time, allow me to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on having been elected to your important post.

We also wish to extend our congratulations to the President and the other members of the Bureau on your election.

President Halonen My congratulations to the Co Chairpersons.

Please accept my sincere congratulations on your success today.

May I be the first to offer my congratulations.

The President We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Mr. ElBaradei and his organization on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005.

On the work of the Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC), I would like to extend my warm congratulations to Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj for her intensive efforts to strengthen the Committee's dialogue with Member States.

Brazilian President Ditmeyer said in greetings , I would like to extend my warm congratulations on your re election as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and wish you much success in your new term.

I should, before closing my remarks, use this opportunity to extend congratulations to the International Atomic Energy Agency and to its Director General, Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, on the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

We extend to him and the people of Burundi, our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for a new era of peace, stability and development.

I would be remiss if I failed also to extend our congratulations to the Vice Chairmen and the Rapporteur on their well deserved election.

My congratulations go also to the other members of the Bureau.

Mr. Johnston (United Kingdom) On behalf of my delegation, Sir, we extend our congratulations to Brazil on assuming the presidency and offer our best wishes and our full cooperation in your programme of work for this month.

Ms. FERNANDO (Sri Lanka) Mr. President, may I extend my congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the CD and assure you of the fullest cooperation of my delegation in your endeavours in your usual energetic manner to get the CD back to work?

I would like to take this opportunity to extend to him the Assembly's congratulations on his election, as well as to thank the tellers for their assistance.

President Kumaratunga I extend to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations as you assume the high office of the President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Mr. Amorim (Brazil) (spoke in Portuguese English text provided by the delegation) I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, Ambassador Jan Eliasson of Sweden, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. Manis (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic) I am pleased to extend to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations and appreciation on your election to the chairmanship of this important Committee.

Ms. Sarne (Philippines) On behalf of my delegation, I wish to extend my warmest congratulations to Judge Fausto Pocar on his election to the presidency of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and to wish him success in his term and in his future endeavours with the Tribunal.

Mr. Acharya (Nepal) Mr. President, I should like to extend my congratulations upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month and to thank you for convening the discussion of this important issue, the protection of civilians in armed conflict.

On behalf of the delegation of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, I extend warm congratulations to the delegations of Sweden and of Gabon on their election to preside over this Meeting.

Allow me, on behalf of all the member States and observer States of the SCO, to extend our warmest congratulations on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

President Obasanjo On behalf of the Government and the people of Nigeria, and in my capacity as the current Chairman of the African Union (AU), I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to you, Sir, and your country, Sweden, on your election as President of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

Congratulations. Mazel tov.

Mr. Ahmad (Chad) (spoke in French) On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf I would like to extend our warm congratulations to President Eliasson on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session and to ensure him of our cooperation in carrying out his noble mission.

Congratulations, you wicked girl!

Congratulations, you have won!

Congratulations on your face.

Mr. JAZAIRY (Algeria) Mr. President, I should like to extend to you my congratulations as you take up these functions, and I should like to congratulate the Ambassador of Nigeria for the wonderful efforts that he made in order to get our Conference to move in the right direction.

I would like to offer my congratulations to the members of the Bureau who have been elected thus far.

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah I would like to offer my congratulations to the President on his election.

My thanks and congratulations go to the youth delegates who are here to represent so many of the world's countries.

Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish) I wish at the outset to extend to you, Sir, the most cordial congratulations of the Government and people of Ecuador on Argentina's well deserved election to the Council.

Mr. Al Rumaihi (Qatar) (spoke in Arabic) It gives me great pleasure at the outset to extend to you, Mr. President, our congratulations upon your election to the presidency of this sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

Mr. Gregoire (Dominica) Mr. President, please allow me, on behalf of the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, to extend our congratulations to you on your assumption of the presidency at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

I want to extend my stay here for a few more days.

The Chairman Allow me to extend my warm welcome to all delegations.