UN General Assembly
1983

36. First of all, Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you most cordially on your election to the highest office of the thirty-eighth session. This brilliant election is a well-deserved ratification of your talents and personal experience and of the role played by Panama and Latin America in the cause of peace and independence in the world. 37. I warmly congratulate Mr. Imre Hollai, President of the thirty-seventh session, for his important contributions to the results achieved at that session in extremely difficult circumstances, thanks to his dynamic and skilful guidance of its work. 38. The Secretary-General has worked tirelessly throughout the past year to promote a greater degree of understanding and compromise on difficult questions. He deserves our gratitude for all his inestimable contributions to the improvement of the international climate.