阿西亚·比瓦斯先生（委内瑞拉玻利瓦尔共和国）（以西班牙语发言）：我们首先要感谢主席国新西兰召开本次辩论会，并感谢麦卡利部长主持会议。我们还要感谢联合国阿富汗援助团（联阿援助团）团长山本忠通先生的通报。我们欢迎他，并支持他作为负责阿富汗问题的秘书长特别代表为阿富汗的和平与稳定所作的值得称道的努力。联阿援助团的工作对于促进和平、民族和解、区域合作和经济社会发展是不可或缺的。我们还要感谢阿富汗常驻代表、我们的朋友赛卡尔大使的发言。
Mr. Arcia Vivas (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We would like to begin our intervention by thanking the presidency of New Zealand for convening this debate, and Minister McCully for presiding over it. We also thank the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his briefing. We welcome him and we support his commendable efforts as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for peace and stability in Afghanistan. We should highlight the work done by UNAMA, which has been essential to promoting peace, national reconciliation, regional cooperation and economic and social development. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, our friend Ambassador Saikal, for his statement.