UN General Assembly
1967

20. Comrade President, we have already had the occasion to congratulate you from this rostrum on your election, but I also wanted personally to say on my behalf, and on behalf of all my other colleagues in the delegation, that it gives us great pleasure to see in the Chair so distinguished a representative of a friendly country, socialist Romania. I should like at the same time to congratulate all the elected officials of the present session of the General Assembly, the Vice-Presidents and the Chairman of the Committees. 21. May I also be permitted to express our appreciation and gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Pazhwak, who so ably and tirelessly guided our work during a very busy and difficult year, His great experience as an old hand with United Nations problems assisted all of us. We do sincerely thank him and we are grateful to Afghanistan for having given us such a President of the General Assembly.