Jean Ping (second from left), President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly, passes the gavel to Jan Eliasson, President of the sixtieth session of the Assembly, thus signalling the official handover of the Presidency to him, today at UN Headquarters. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) and Margaret Ann Kelley (right), Director of the General Assembly and ECOSOC Affairs Division of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, look on.