translate English to French: I congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and assure him of my Government's full support; and if I may, through him thank his predecessor, His Excellency Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua for his leadership during his presidency of the sixty-third session.
Si je puis me permettre, je voudrais également par son intermédiaire remercier son prédécesseur, S. E. le père Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, pour les qualités de dirigeant dont il a fait preuve lorsqu'il a présidé la soixante-troisième session.