UN General Assembly
2009

On behalf of my delegation and in my own name, I would like to offer the President our warmest congratulations on his brilliant election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. It would be remiss not to express our pride and our pleasure at the election of the representative of a neighbour country, brother and friend of Chad. I am referring to the brother Ali Treki of the great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. With his qualities and his long and rich diplomatic experience, he will find it easy to lead our work with tact. Through me, the Chadian delegation assures him of its full cooperation in discharging his difficult but very lofty task. I would also like to express our gratitude to his predecessor for having led the work of the sixty-third session with skill and perception. Allow me also to pay due tribute to our Secretary-General, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, for his tireless commitment to the work of defending and promoting the ideals of our Organization. From this rostrum, delegations at the sixty-third