正如他本人所说，他在这个问题上的工作时间超过了第一次世界大战持续的时间，超过了他的前任卜拉希米先生和科菲·安南先生的任期。我认为，正如对他的赞扬所表明的那样，联合国里无人不深深地感受到他给联合国特使所有任务中的这一最艰巨任务所带来的承诺、精力、决心和热情。
As he himself said, he has worked on it longer than the First World War lasted, exceeding the tenure of his predecessors, Mr. Brahimi and Kofi Annan. I think as the tribute to him showed, there is not a person in the United Nations who does not feel very deeply the amount of commitment, energy, resolve and passion that he has brought to this most difficult of all United Nations Envoy tasks.