We extend to him our best wishes.

I offer my best wishes to the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan.

Your health!

My best wishes to you especially, Mr. President, for a good outcome of your presidency.

My best wishes, Nela.

I therefore congratulate you very warmly and offer you my best wishes for success.

I remain, with the best wishes for your health,

To this we add our best wishes for his success in meeting the challenges of this awesome assignment.

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

I wish him well in his task.

Mr. KREID (Austria) At the outset, Mr. President, our congratulations and best wishes to you, and be assured that we will do our best to make your task easier.

Mr. AKRAM (Pakistan) Mr. President, please accept felicitations of the Pakistan delegation and my personal best wishes on your assumption of the presidency of the Conference.

The Council extended to President Mandela its good wishes for happiness and success in his private and public life in coming years.

In conclusion, let me express the best wishes of the Group of 21 to Ambassador Heinsberg of Germany in his future endeavours.

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

Mr. CAUGHLEY (New Zealand) Mr. President, on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition, may I congratulate you and Nigeria on your assumption of the presidency of this Conference and offer you and your country our best wishes and support for your term in the Chair?

My best wishes go to you, Madam President, to all my colleagues, and to the CD itself.

My best wishes.

I would also like to wish Ambassador Sir Michael Weston every success and welcome the new ambassadors from New Zealand and Chile.

Those participating in the Ottawa Process do so with our good wishes.

Mr. FREEMAN (United Kingdom), speaking on behalf of the European Union, expressed appreciation to the Director of the Geneva Branch of the Department for Disarmament Affairs for the work he had accomplished in Geneva and the smooth working relations he had instituted, and expressed best wishes for his future endeavours.

In conclusion, on behalf of the World Trade Organization, I should like to convey our best wishes to the United Nations on the auspicious occasion of its sixtieth anniversary.

Mr. TREZZA (Italy) Mr. President, since it is the first time that I am taking the floor under your presidency, let me congratulate you and express all my support and best wishes for your endeavours.

I would just extend from the United Kingdom every best wish to Burundi now as it moves forward, that it should do so with utmost success.

Mr. AL TIKRITI (Iraq) (translated from Arabic) Madam President, allow me at the outset to offer you my best wishes for success in your high office.

He had to remain in Geneva because he is holding his first meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee.

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.

I should sincerely like to express my warmest and best wishes to the new President of the CD, the distinguished Ambassador of Senegal, Mrs. Diallo.

The President I express to the Minister for External Relations of the Sudan my best wishes for the future as he leaves his post.

We express our congratulations and best wishes for an equally successful term to the incoming members the Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia.

My delegation will continue to support you, even if I am no longer here, and my best wishes to the Conference on Disarmament.

I am happy to convey the greetings and best wishes of His Majesty King Mswati III, Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and the entire Swazi nation.

sent congratulatory messages to the General Assembly, CPC Central Committee, and newly elected leaders, expressing warm congratulations and best wishes.

Mrs. Holguín (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish) I wish to express our best wishes to you, Sir, in your endeavours as President of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

I am very pleased to echo his words today and convey to our colleague and friend the best wishes of the French delegation in his future professional tasks and private life.

Mr. PRIMAKOV (Russian Federation) (translated from Russian) Allow me first of all, Mr. President, to congratulate you on taking up the post of President of the Conference on Disarmament and to convey to you as the representative of a friendly country, Senegal, our best wishes for the successful discharge of your responsible task.

Malaysia wishes to take this opportunity to extend its best wishes to Mr. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Under Secretary General Special Adviser on Africa, on his new assignment as Under Secretary General in the Department of Political Affairs, effective 1 July 2005.

Li Keqiang first conveyed President Xi Jinping's sincere greetings and good wishes to President Putin.

He also wished to offer his best wishes to Mr. Kandeh Yumkella, the Director General designate, who would undoubtedly be acclaimed Director General by the Conference with the great enthusiasm he deserved.

India conveyed its best wishes to the outgoing Director General, Mr. Magariños, and assured the Director General designate of its full support and cooperation.

12. Expresses its appreciation for the sixteen years of distinguished service by Mr. Hans Blix as Director General of the Agency, and extends its best wishes to Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the incoming Director General of the Agency

Wish you a delightful afternoon

Ms. MTSHALI (South Africa) South Africa would like to add its voice to the good wishes that have been given to Ambassador Heinsberg for his future career.

I cannot conclude this statement without conveying to Ambassador Heinsberg the best wishes of my delegation and my own for professional success in his new duties, which we are sure he will undertake with his usual talent and dedication.

Oh, no, no, no. I was just wishing Mr. McCabe good luck.