We'll do everything businesslike.

But business should be transacted in a businesslike manner.

No, ma'am. It all looks very businesslike and proper to me.

The friendly and businesslike atmosphere was another positive feature of the consultations.

He hoped that such a format would prepare the ground for more meaningful and businesslike sessions in future.

The public international law and policy group delegation reported that the general climate at the polling places had seemed to be positive and businesslike.

The managers of decentralized offices will be so delegated in January 2005, providing the framework for these offices to operate in a businesslike manner, without the need for time consuming approvals from headquarters.

The incident was yet another disturbing indication that the mutual understanding and good, businesslike relations between the diplomatic community and the City authorities, built up over years of effort, were being seriously eroded.

The Special Rapporteur is confident that the Commission, while considering further improvements in its working methods, will find a more forward looking and businesslike approach for the discussion of the human rights situation in the Middle East.

At the meetings, which took place in a friendly and businesslike atmosphere, current problems in the prospects for bilateral relations were discussed, and an exchange of views was held on regional and international issues of mutual interest.

The irony (if there is an irony at all) is that this tragedy came at a time when mistrust seemed, at long last, to be giving way to better, more businesslike relations and greater understanding between the two countries.

Furthermore, the Kyrgyz Republic looks forward to a businesslike and fruitful consideration of the issue and expresses the hope that these principles would be agreed upon and adopted by the General Assembly in 1999 during the year of celebration of the centennial of the first International Peace Conference of 1899.

I should also pay tribute to Foreign Minister Jean Ping, President of the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session, for all his efforts during this important period in the life of the United Nations and for the draft outcome document (A 60 L.1), which, I have no doubt, will facilitate businesslike deliberations at this High level Plenary Meeting.

I also wish to convey our deep appreciation to His Excellency Ambassador Razali Ismail for his outstanding stewardship of the fifty first session. My delegation welcomed the firm management and dispatch of the General Assembly agenda which characterized his tenure as President. We would wish that this businesslike approach reflect the new direction of a reformed United Nations, more efficient and more effective, to face the challenge of rapid global change.

I should like to address a special word of thanks to the Chairman of the Committee, His Excellency Ambassador Machivenyika Tobias Mapuranga, whose diplomatic skills and patience helped the Committee to conduct its deliberations efficiently and in a businesslike manner. The Chairman was assisted by two able Vice Chairmen, Mr. Petru Dumitriu and Mr. Ravjaa Mounkhou, with whom, in my capacity as Rapporteur, I had the honour to serve in the Bureau of the Committee.