UN General Assembly
1982

It is a great pleasure to extend congratulations, on behalf of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, to the President on his unanimous election to guide this thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly. This honour is undoubtedly due to his personal qualities as a statesman and diplomat, and is also a tribute to his country, Hungary. In discharging these high functions he may be assured of the availability of our delegation and its constant desire to co-operate with him. I should also like to thank his predecessor, Mr. Kittani, for the exemplary way, displaying constant tact and objectivity, in which he conducted the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly and the subsequent special sessions. To the Secretary-General the Mauritanian delegation and I personally would like to extend the sincere expression of our esteem. The report on the work of the Organization which he has submitted bears witness to his great qualities of courage, frankness and far-sightedness. The picture of our universe today is a terrifying one. It is not worthy of mankind which has come