UN General Assembly
1992

The delegation of the Republic of Suriname congratulates you most warmly. Sir, upon your election to the presidency of the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly. You bring to that high post a wealth of experience and dedication, qualities that augur well for a successful accomplishment of the task before us. Allow us to thank your predecessor. His Excellency Mr. Samir Shihabi, for the excellent manner in which he guided the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly. We wish him well in his future endeavours. We should like to welcome and congratulate the Secretary-General of the United Nations on his assumption of that lofty and equally responsible office. He has assumed the leadership of the Organization at a very difficult and crucial time marked by many political changes, a time at which greater involvement of the Organization in international affairs is demanded. We wish the Secretary-General well and assure him of our fullest cooperation. I take this opportunity to welcome into the United Nations the newly independent States of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova,