I am confident that with your skill and experience you will capably guide our deliberations on disarmament and international security issues to a successful outcome.

Many of the voices that called for, and then bungled, military intervention in Iraq are now calling for war with Iran. Why should the rest of the world think that conflict with a larger and more resolute enemy would be handled any more capably?

But there is an almost Jekyll and Hyde quality to them The companies that make our low cost clothes may produce them in dangerous sweatshops. And the people companies helped so capably and generously during the emergency in Paris are the same people they betray and conceal information from at other times.

I would also like to express my delegation apos s gratitude to your predecessors, Ambassador Joun Yung Sun of the Republic of Korea and Mr. Pavel Grecu of Romania, for directing the work of the Conference so capably throughout the first part of our 1997 session and also for the consultations they conducted during their presidency.