UN General Assembly
2006

First, Madam, I should like to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. Your election is proof of the high esteem in which the international community holds your country, Bahrain, and also yourself, whose wealth of diplomatic experience will help us find the right solutions to the problems facing this session of the Assembly. I would also ask you kindly to convey my delegation’s congratulations to the other members of the Bureau. You may count on my delegation’s 06-53952 12 unremitting willingness and desire to work with you for the success of this session. Allow me also to express to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Jan Eliasson of Sweden, the Ivorian delegation’s gratitude for his intensive activities during his presidency and for the quality of the work he accomplished. I would also like to pay well-deserved tribute to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to reiterate my country’s appreciation for the skill with which he has discharged his mission at the head of our Organization.