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

the successful closing of the 19th CPC National Congress and Xi Jinping s re election as the General Secretary the CPC Central Committee.

At the same time, we warmly congratulate Mr. Søren Jessen Petersen on his briefing.

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

I would like, first of all, to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the important position of Chairman.

My delegation warmly congratulates you, Mr. Chairman, and the other members of the Bureau.

At the outset, I wish to extend our warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your unanimous election as Chairman of the First Committee.

I also wish to extend warm congratulations to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her victory in the presidential election.

Mr. RIVASSEAU (France) (translated from French) Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you very warmly as you take the Chair.

Brazilian President Ditmeyer said in greetings , I would like to extend my warm congratulations on your re election as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and wish you much success in your new term.

I would like to offer warm congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as Chairman of the First Committee at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

We warmly congratulate Mexico for taking that important step, and we also congratulate the Dominican Republic and Kenya, which became States parties to the Rome Statute during the past year.

On behalf of my delegation, I most warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Chairman of the First Committee.

We also warmly congratulate Mr. ElBaradei on his reappointment as IAEA Director General for another term.

Mr. Moussa (Egypt) (interpretation from Arabic) Mr. President, to you and your friendly country, I am pleased to extend my warmest congratulations on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly.

On behalf of the delegation of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, I extend warm congratulations to the delegations of Sweden and of Gabon on their election to preside over this Meeting.

Hun Sen extended warm congratulations to Xi Jinping for winning the support of the entire party and the people throughout the country and for being reelected as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

They expressed to H.E. Dr. Abu Bakr Abdullah Al Qirbi their warm congratulations on the wise and skilful way he steered the proceedings.

On the work of the Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC), I would like to extend my warm congratulations to Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj for her intensive efforts to strengthen the Committee's dialogue with Member States.

Mr. Widhya (Cambodia) First of all, allow me, on behalf of my delegation, to warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Chairman, as well as to congratulate the members of the First Committee.

Ms. HE Wangyang (China) extended her warm congratulations to Mr. Yumkella and commended his well thought out plans for the future of UNIDO.

I would like to congratulate warmly the Secretary General for the dedicated manner in which he has undertaken the difficult task of reforming the United Nations so as to ensure that it will be able to address the challenges of the twenty first century.

We would like to congratulate you warmly on taking up the presidency of the first session of the CD this year. I would also like to reserve an opportunity for my Ambassador to offer you his formal congratulations on your assumption of the presidency.

The mission warmly congratulated the people and Government of Burundi for the successful conduct of the electoral process and the peaceful transfer of authority to an elected Government.

Mr. De Gucht (Belgium) (spoke in French) Allow me to congratulate you most warmly, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly.

Mr. AHMAD JAZRI (Malaysia) As this is the first time that I take the floor, I would like to extend my warm congratulations to you on your assumption of the presidency.

Thus, I should like to congratulate you most warmly on behalf of my delegation and assure you of Gabon's support throughout your term.

We also wish to congratulate you very warmly on your commendable initiative to hold an open debate on the subject of small arms.

Mr. PRASAD (India) Mr. President, please accept my delegation's warm felicitations on your assumption of the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament.

Mr. De Rivière (France) (spoke in French) My delegation would like first of all to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, on having organized today's discussion.

Mr. Motoc (Romania) Allow me, at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you very warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Council.

Our delegation warmly congratulates new UNCLOS States parties and believes that the current trend of broadening the membership of the Convention will continue.

Mr. Kasrawi (Jordan) (spoke in Arabic) Mr. President, allow me at the outset to congratulate you warmly on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

I wish to express, on behalf of the delegation of Grenada, warm congratulations to the Co Chairpersons on their election and on steering these deliberations so efficiently.

President Kumaratunga I extend to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations as you assume the high office of the President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Mr. Kryzhanivsky (Ukraine) I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you, Ambassador Choi, on your assumption of the chairmanship of the Committee.

I would also like to congratulate warmly the Secretary General for his courageous initiatives to give our Organization new momentum and further the fundamental ideals and principles of the United Nations.

Ms. ANDERSON (Ireland) Mr. President, firstly, may I congratulate you very warmly on your rather unexpected but very welcome arrival in the Chair as President?

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

A toast to Johnny, no?

Greetings, brother.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

My congratulations, sir.