The Committee has met 10 times since I last briefed the Council. Half of those meetings were formal.

I am also pleased to welcome the presence of Ambassador Valdés, to whom I am particularly grateful for having briefed us on the situation in Haiti.

The Council has already been briefed on the assassination of George Hawi on 21 June, and I will not dwell on it.

I have travelled to Nairobi twice in February and September 2005 and held meetings with senior Government officials, during which I briefed them fully on the situation.

The working group has benefited greatly from the views and suggestions of those who have graciously briefed it and also from those who have briefed the other committees, particularly the CTC.

The Security Council will be briefed on developments in late April 2005.

My erstwhile colleague Kieran Prendergast last briefed the Council in June and announced that I would come this month to give members my first impressions .

But critically, they're briefed about the rules of the game in separate rooms.

The report of the Commission (S 2005 60) has been placed before the Security Council, and I briefed the Council on the report on 16 February 2005.

It briefed them on its visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.

The Committee will be briefed by Ms. Schöpp Schilling on the results of the meeting.

The Vice President took note of his message that the rebel groups are prepared to return to the negotiating table and briefed him on reconciliation efforts at the level of traditional tribal leaders.

And they came down on the side of open publication, which is the right approach we've briefed the White House, we've briefed members of Congress, we've tried to take and push the policy issues in parallel with the scientific advances.

The Acting Executive Chairman briefed the Commissioners on the activities of UNMOVIC since their last meeting.

The Assistant Secretary General, Danilo Turk, briefed the Council on new developments since the report was submitted.

The NGOs had briefed him on their recent initiatives, and he had discussed with them the status of preparations for the 2005 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People.

Mr. Wolfensohn briefed the Quartet principals on his first round of talks with the parties in the region.

The head of mission was also briefed on the efforts undertaken by MONUC and ONUB regarding child protection.

On 4 April, the President briefed the press on the work programme of the Council for this month.

Ms. Patterson briefed the Council on the efforts and progress of the Multinational Force in fulfilling its mandate.

Mr. Gambari When I last briefed the Council on this item on behalf of the Secretariat on 30 November (see S PV.5312), I spoke of the opportunities for, and challenges to, progress towards peace in the Middle East.

The Minister was briefed by the police authorities on the strategic challenges that the police had been confronted with.

Mr. Annabi also briefed the Council on the latest development of disarmament and community reinsertion (DCR) programme in Ituri.

I am also introducing a much more structured system of induction to ensure that senior officials are properly briefed on the broader system of United Nations rules, regulations, codes of conduct and managerial systems.

The Team has briefed CTED on its proposed document and information management system to which they too will have access.

The High Commissioner attended a later meeting with the mandate holders to be briefed on the outcome of their discussion.

Reports of special procedures should be put before the Council or it should be briefed by mandate holders, where appropriate.

On 4 October 2004, I briefed the Security Council on the main findings and recommendations resulting from my visit to the Sudan with the Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide in September 2004.

The mission was briefed by United Nations agencies and non governmental organizations on the process thus far and the challenges faced.

On 27 January, the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, briefed the Council on the humanitarian situation in Africa.

On 25 January, during informal consultations, the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations briefed the Council on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire.

In both locations, MINUSTAH and other United Nations staff briefed them on the political, security, human rights and socio economic situation of the area.

The Working Group convened 10 informal meetings in 2005 and was briefed by invited experts on different sanctions related issues at five of them.

IAMB has been briefed by a representative of the United States Department of Defense, who provided additional clarifications regarding the status of the audit.

Mr. Rock also briefed the Group on his participation at the Canadian Conference of the Haitian Diaspora, held in Montreal on 10 11 December 2004.

At the meeting with the working group on transition issues, the Group was briefed by Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, returning from Burundi.

The mission briefed the President and Foreign Minister on the outcome of its visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs briefed the Meeting on its website on the coordination of outer space activities within the United Nations system (www.uncosa.unvienna.org).

The representatives of the Secretary General briefed the Advisory Committee on the current context and status of the operation following the events of November 2004.

The Acting Executive Chairman briefed the Commissioners on the activities of UNMOVIC since their last session and on the planned activities for the next quarter.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

Before I left, I actually asked him if I could get him something.

I don't like him much, in fact I hate him.

Much as I pitied him, I could not help him.