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We are very grateful to them.

It means that the summit can start on the correct basis.

Once again we express our gratitude to them.

We therefore express our warmest thanks to France.

Once again, we thank them all.

A special shout out to Kat Batuigas, who helped us produce this episode.

We thank the Chairman and the members of the Committee for their efforts.

Special thanks are due to Alexander Pogosjan (Kuban Sugar Beet), Vladimir Artsivenko and Yuri Molotilin (Kuban Sugar Association), who are the official recipients of the project.

We express our appreciation and gratitude to the Government of Kazakhstan for having undertaken to host the second meeting of the Parties.

In this connection, the idea of establishing the Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, with its headquarters in our capital, Ashgabat, is a significant international initiative.

We all pray that God may be with their families, and express our gratitude to the deceased.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the experts who took part in the preparation of this publication.

We express our warmest thanks to all the international partners that accompanied us on our long road to peace.

We also extend our deepest gratitude to the observers dispatched by the Organization of African Unity, the European Union and the Commonwealth.

We would express our sincere thanks to them for the spirit in which they made their contribution.

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We particularly thank the Secretary General for his valiant efforts to secure international peace and security.

Our commendations also go to the two Vice Chairmen, Ambassador Wilhelm Breitenstein of Finland and Ambassador Chew Tai Soo of Singapore.

We congratulate the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Inter Agency Standing Committee on their efforts to advance the cluster approach.

We express also our gratitude to the countries that in diverse ways have given humanitarian assistance to the people, who still are in need of it now.

Our commendation is due also to the two Vice Chairmen, Ambassadors Chew Tai Soo of Singapore and Wilhelm Breitenstein of Finland.

Our gratitude also goes to the Legal Counsel, Mr. Fleischhauer, for his dedicated efforts and invaluable contributions in the area of the law of the sea.

We express our deep gratitude to Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana for his admirable work during his presidency.

On behalf of the recipients of this assistance, we extend our deep gratitude for the generosity of the donor countries that supported the Fund over all these years.

Finally, we commend the precise follow up provided by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for the rebuilding of a solid national economy.

We of course express our gratitude for the past and ongoing mine clearing programmes of the United Nations and experts from other countries.

In this regard, we express our gratitude to our developed neighbouring countries for the consideration they have given to some of our exports.

In alphabetical order, we thank the authors of this chapter, starting with Dr. Nikolai Burdin, Director, OAO NIPIEIlesprom, Moscow.

We express our sincere thanks to the Administration of Afghanistan and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who are giving serious attention to those people.

We express our appreciation and gratitude also to the previous President, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, for his memorable contribution in guiding the forty seventh session of the Assembly.

We express our gratitude and congratulations to the Government and the people of Barbados for the excellent arrangements made for the Conference and for their significant contribution to its outcomes.

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Acknowledgements

Gratitude.

Before concluding, we express our recognition and gratitude to the outgoing Chairman of the First Committee, Ambassador Alfonso de Alba, the representative of a State member of the Rio Group.

Our gratitude goes to the outgoing President of the forty seventh session, the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, who gave the best account of his skills in the service of the Assembly last year.

Our thanks go also to the Chairmen of the sanctions Committees, who have worked diligently and assiduously, often under great pressure and in extraordinary circumstances.

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We also appreciate very much the efforts of Commander Marcos de Almeida of Brazil, who very skilfully coordinated the negotiations this year on the draft resolution on oceans.

At the outset, we extend our thanks and congratulations to the Secretary General for his report, which serves as a basis for further debate on this very important issue.

We congratulate President Clinton on his commitment to struggling against the forces of protectionism in his country and elsewhere in North America to trying to forge ahead.

We thank the Member States for deciding this question in the manner set forth in the report of the Preparatory Committee and look forward to its strict implementation.