UN General Assembly
1990

﻿May I, or behalf of my Government and the people of Solomon Islands, congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the forty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly. It is my conviction that with your fine diplomatic skills and wealth of experience, the current session will be further enhanced by the successful and practical results we would all want. I also wish to express my profound gratitude to your predecessor, Major General Joseph H. Garba of Nigeria, for his excellent leadership during the last session. I wish to commend the Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, for his untiring efforts and his dedication towards realising and upholding the principles and purposes of the United Nations. On 12 October last year my Foreign Minister, Sir Baddeley Devesi, stood on this famous rostrum to voice - perhaps one could now say with hindsight - a somewhat over-zealous expression of optimism and trust in humankind and in the ability of the United Nations to influence man's desire for peace.