UN General Assembly
1992

At the outset, I should like to offer the President my most sincere congratulations on his well-deserved election to preside over the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly and to express my delegation's gratitude and appreciation for the constructive efforts of the President of the forty-sixth session. It is our earnest hope that the General Assembly, drawing upon our President's valuable experience and diplomatic skills, will play a significant role in the new international environment. I assure him of my delegation's full cooperation to this end. I also take this opportunity to offer my heartfelt felicitations to the new Members who have joined us in the United Nations since the last session of the General Assembly, most of whom are neighbours of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is a matter of great joy and satisfaction for me and my delegation that the seat of Afghanistan in the Assembly is at long last occupied by the representatives of the legitimate Government of that country. This session opens at a time, in the aftermath of the cold war, when