与每一位安理会成员一道工作都是一项真正的殊荣。尽管安理会自身存在分歧，但它始终循同一方针，我始终感受到这一点。安理会一贯支持我的复杂任务和我本人，为此，我要向它表示衷心感谢。由于这是我最后一次以这一身份向安理会作通报，请允许我超出常规，因为我和各位成员确实结下了个人友谊，这是我感受到的。因此，除了仅仅正式问候外——因为我们在一起，而且他们陪伴我走过了这段并不容易的旅程——我要与我的每一个朋友热烈握手。
It has been a real privilege and an honour to work with each and every member of the Council. In spite of the Council’s own divisions, it has always had one line, which I have constantly felt. It has consistently supported our complex mission and me, and I want to thank it very warmly for that. And since that this is my last briefing to the Council in this capacity, let me to go beyond protocol, since members and I have actually developed individual friendships, and I have felt that. So beyond just a formal greeting — since we were together and they have accompanied me during this journey, which has not been an easy one — I should like to warmly shake the hand of each one of my friends.