贝穆德斯先生（乌拉圭）（以西班牙语发言）：我谨感谢主席国新西兰按照其工作方案召开本次辩论会，并且也感谢麦卡利部长主持我们今天的会议。我也要感谢山本大使和赛卡尔大使分别进行的通报。首先，我要欢迎秘书长特别代表山本忠通大使并祝愿他在工作中一切顺利。我们也感谢阿富汗境内全体联合国工作人员的献身精神，并强调联合国阿富汗援助团（联阿援助团）在极其困难的条件下为完成任务所做的工作。
Mr. Bermúdez (Uruguay) (spoke in Spanish): I wish to thank the presidency of New Zealand for having convened this debate under its programme of work and also to thank Minister McCully for presiding over our meeting today. I should like also to thank Ambassadors Yamamoto and Saikal, respectively, for their briefings. First, I should like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Tadamichi Yamamoto, and to wish him every success in his work. We also thank all of the United Nations personnel working in Afghanistan for their dedication and stress the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in fulfilling its mandate under extremely difficult conditions.