UN General Assembly
1982

On behalf of the Hungarian delegation, Sir, I offer you heartfelt congratulations on your election as President of the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly. We are pleased at your election to that high post, for it is an expression of international recognition both of socialist Hungary's peace-loving foreign policy and of its activities in the United Nations. It is our sincere hope that under your guidance the General Assembly will carry out the tasks of this session successfully and in a constructive atmosphere. 2. The thirty-seventh session of the General As¬sembly is taking place in an international situation full of controversy and fraught with dangers. Since last year, subversive activities threatening peace and security have been stepped up; tension connected with certain specific events continues to grow. 3. The main reason for the deterioration in the international situation is that extremist imperialist circles are striving to upset the balance if power which has emerged between the two world systems. They are striving to attain military supremacy, and to that end have started