For now, from my heart, I can say I bless you in His name.

Please, therefore, accept my very best wishes for an effective, successful and productive session.

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 commend the Special Committee for its hard work, and offer all the participants in this seminar my best wishes for success.

My heartiest congratulations, Carlos.

Like other colleagues we would also extend our best wishes to Ambassador Volker Heinsberg for his future career and for his future life.

It is my sincere wish, Sir, that, under your leadership, this Committee will achieve positive and fruitful results.

My dear friend, allow me to offer my warmest congratulations.

Well, just the same, we'd a whole lot rather you paid these boys what they're used to getting.

It extend my sincere congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Jan Eliasson.

I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere hope that the countries of the world will join us in our celebration next year.

Mrs. BOURGOIS (France) (translated from French) Mr. President, allow me as the year begins to extend to you my best wishes for success.

2. First of all, Mr. Chairman, I should like to congratulate you on your election.

Congratulations, Maurice.

We would like to extend our most sincere congratulations and our gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Ismail Razali of Malaysia, for a full, hard working and stimulating fifty first session.

I thank you with all my heart.

I also wish to express our sincere appreciation to the Secretary General for his important report (A 60 181).

We congatulate you with all our hearts.

Please accept my congratulations on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and my sincere wishes for the success of the United Nations in ensuring respect for human rights throughout the world.

I wish them every success.

Mr. Bamba (Côte d'Ivoire) (spoke in French) On behalf of my delegation, I wish to express my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

We offer our sincere thanks.

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

We give thee hearty and humble thanks for thy bounty beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness to us that our land may still yield her increase to thy glory and our comfort.

All best wishes to the big bookkeeper from the little bookies.

Mrs. KUROKOCHI (Japan) Madam President, I begin by congratulating you on the assumption of the presidency of the Conference, and certainly I pledge the wholehearted cooperation of my delegation.

In this regard, we want to express our warmest thanks to the people of the United States and to all the other peoples who have supported us.

We wish him every success.

Together, may we journey well.

We express our sincere congratulations to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of his accession to the Spanish throne.

Our Government has also publicly expressed its sincere wish that all political sectors in Haiti find a way of preserving democracy and of creating a favourable environment that will help ensure the sustainable development of the country.

We wish him well and every success in his future endeavours.

I am sincere when I say that we are all for it.

I should also like to express our gratitude to the members of the Secretariat for their excellent administrative and research support.

We remember that, and we are truly grateful.

Children are liferenewing itself, Capt. Butler... and when life does that, danger seems very unimportant.

Allow me to extend my warn congratulations also to your colleagues on the Bureau for their election to their important posts.

Allow me to extend my warm congratulations also to your colleagues on the Bureau for their election to their important posts.

We extend to him our best wishes.

We said a Buddhist prayer so that all these wishes could come true.

We wish you every success, Mr. Minister.

In conclusion, my delegation wishes to express its wholehearted gratitude and appreciation to all our fellow sponsors for their valuable support and solidarity.

Mr. Djangoné Bi (Côte d'Ivoire) (spoke in French) I wish at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you sincerely, Sir, on Denmark's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May.

And I thank you for it.

This is also the first opportunity I have had to express my heartfelt congratulations to the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his election as head of our Organization.