Countries like Pakistan and others that in the past refused to acknowledge our shared humanity, today extend their hands in friendship and recognition.

139. The capacity of non governmental organizations at all levels to reach women and women apos s groups will receive greater recognition and support.

Over the centuries this vocation has earned it universal respect for its humanitarian activities in the world and recognition by 64 States Members of the United Nations.

We were pleased by the subsequent withdrawal of Iraqi forces to their original positions and the formal recognition of Kuwait by Iraq earlier this month.

Moreover, UNCDF has been featured prominently in the activities of the International Year of Microcredit (2005) and has gained considerable exposure and recognition as a result.

In our view, the high policy making level of participants is ample evidence of increased public and international awareness of the family issue and of the recognition by the community of nations of its far reaching importance.

Gottemoeller s declaration, as well as Gates explicit recognition of Israel s nuclear status should be interpreted within the context of the Obama administration s broader disarmament agenda.

As the drugs problem is global in dimension, we have come to a collective realization and acknowledgement that only global, integrated solutions will offer any remedy of lasting value.

However, through patient negotiation, mutual trust and a recognition of the other side apos s needs, progress can be made and this historic process transformed into action in concrete terms.

In addition, it felt aggrieved by plans for further expansion of NATO, a proposed ballistic missile defense system in Eastern Europe, and Western recognition of Kosovo s secession from Russia s ally, Serbia.

Further sustained effort is needed to increase awareness and recognition among policymakers and planners in developing countries of the nature of voluntary action within specific local contexts and of the contribution such action makes to societies.

General Charles de Gaulle declared himself on radio to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the US.

The unilateral act or declaration occurred in the context of a process that began with the birth of the PLO and its recognition as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people by the Arab Summit Conference held in Rabat in 1974.

Specifically, there has been a renewal of interest in multilateral approaches and a welcome, if belated, recognition of the usefulness and indispensability of the United Nations quot (A 44 266 E 1989 65, paras. 33 and 34).

We have recently witnessed highly important positive developments in the peace process the signing on 13 September 1993, at Washington, of a Declaration of Principles on procedures for self rule in the occupied Palestinian territories, and Israel apos s recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.

Mr. Chygir (Belarus) (interpretation from Russian) Let me congratulate Mr. Amara Essy on his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its forty ninth session. This is both a tribute to his country apos s contribution to the work of the Organization and an acknowledgement of his personal achievements in multilateral diplomacy.

That we are meeting in plenary session attests to the significance of those problems, as affirmed by the Rio Summit, and recognizes the courage and determination of the international community in waging war against those scourges of nature of global dimensions, both geological and human, that affect all regions of the world, particularly Africa.