(Signed) Carol Bellamy

Tribute to Carol Bellamy

Edward Bellamy, How I Came to Write Looking Backward, The Nationalist (Boston), vol.

Delegations paid tribute to Carol Bellamy, whose second term of office expires 1 May 2005.

Delegations paid tribute to Carol Bellamy, whose second term of office expires 1 May 2005.

I invite Ms. Bellamy to take a seat at the Council table and to make her statement.

Ms. Bellamy was hailed for her dynamism, extraordinary leadership and unfailing commitment to the cause of children, including her numerous travels to crisis torn countries.

Ms. Bellamy Let me begin by thanking the Argentinean presidency for giving us the opportunity to address the Security Council in its open debate on Haiti.

Ms. Bellamy shared parting thoughts about her years at UNICEF, which began at a time when armed conflict, natural disasters and HIV AIDS had reversed hard won gains in health, nutrition and education and had increased poverty.

She also met with the Executive Director of UNICEF, Carol Bellamy, and the Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), Julia Taft, and with the permanent representatives of Liberia and Nigeria to the United Nations.

In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, the President, with the consent of the Council, extended an invitation under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure to Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund.

Ms. Bellamy thanked the Executive Board for its unstinting leadership and support during her tenure and expressed her gratitude for the excellent work of Youssouf Oomar, Assistant Secretary of the Executive Board, who would soon take up the post of UNICEF Representative in Côte d'Ivoire.

Ms. Bellamy thanked the Executive Board for its unstinting leadership and support during her tenure and expressed her gratitude for the excellent work of Youssouf Oomar, Assistant Secretary of the Executive Board, who would soon take up the post of UNICEF Representative in Côte d'Ivoire.

The President (spoke in Spanish) In accordance with the usual practice, and in the absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Ms. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund.