Already I've been tremendously heartened at the response of all our partners.

So I am very heartened to hear that Council members will now study our proposals.

At the same time, we are heartened by the overwhelming international response to the tragedy.

We are heartened by the way in which issues have been titled and delineated in the report.

We are heartened and add our encouragement to those governments supporting total debt cancellation for the poorest nations.

We are also heartened by the determination exhibited by Kosovo's leaders to pursue the implementation of these and other standards.

I am heartened that, after lengthy deliberations by the Council, the text takes into account proposals that I made in my January report.

However, New Zealand has been extremely heartened by the amount of interest shown in the initiative we put forward, even by those who opposed it.

We can be heartened by initiatives by government, researchers, health professionals and diverse communities of women to attend thoughtfully and energetically to women's health concerns.

Here I am very heartened to hear many members say that yes, there has to be progress on the political front, in terms of peacemaking and security.

I am therefore especially heartened by the presence of Ms. Merlene Glynn, the representative of the Organization of American States based here in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

We are heartened by progress towards the establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission and the decision to create a new Human Rights Council, which constitute major institutional reforms in their own right.

This is why I am especially heartened that we have with us at this seminar Mrs. Paula Mohammed of the UNDP Office in Barbados who oversees the governance programme for the Eastern Caribbean.

Turning now to the Council's work in the African region, my delegation is heartened by the steady gains that have been made in containing or reducing the scale of conflicts on the continent.

CARICOM member States are heartened by the leadership that African countries have shown both in laying the foundations for long term development and in creating conditions for durable peace and security in that continent.

I am heartened that in the debates on both the future of the United Nations and on the follow up to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, respect for human rights occupies a central place.

We were therefore heartened to hear the Secretary General's statement yesterday that he would, by the end of the week, be responding to the call of the leaders who met in Jakarta by appointing a special representative.

In that regard, we are heartened that the outcome document of the recently concluded summit has referred to the issue of migration and that the next session of the General Assembly will discuss the issue of migration and development.

Ms. Thandar (Myanmar) said that her Government was heartened to see that since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, women around the world were not only more aware of their rights, but were better positioned to exercise those rights.

Mr. Al Nasser (Qatar) (spoke in Arabic) As we meet at the mid point of the 2001 2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence for the Children of the World, we are heartened by the genesis of a global movement of peaceseekers and peacebuilders.

A better approach to reducing unemployment would be a new and expanded round of quantitative easing. I am heartened by calls for this in the UK, and that the talk is now turning to the purchase of risky assets, such as corporate bonds or bundles of loans to the private sector, as opposed to long term government securities.

While Member States are committed to doing our part, I was also heartened to hear from the Secretary General at the opening of the general debate that he intended to follow through on every action asked of him, and he asked Member States to pledge to an accountability pact to live up to what the summit outcome requires of us.