UN General Assembly
1992

It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the Syrian delegation, to congratulate the new President on his election to the presidency of the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly, particularly as our two countries and peoples enjoy bonds of traditional friendship. I should also like to express our appreciation to your predecessor, the permanent representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for the success and skill with which he presided over the proceedings of the previous session of the General Assembly. May we wish his sisterly country progress and prosperity. I should also like to take this opportunity to reiterate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations our confidence and our appreciation of his unremitting efforts in the service of the international community and the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter. In that respect, we value the effort that has gone into the preparation of his report entitled "An Agenda for Peace" and many of the valuable ideas contained therein. As is customary in this forum, we welcome the new States Members which