UN General Assembly
1988

﻿It gives me great pleasure to express to Mt. Dante Caputo my sincere congratulations on his well-deserved election as President of the forty-third session of the General Assembly. We are confident that his wisdom and experience will ensure constructive and fruitful deliberations on the very important, indeed vital, issues before the Assembly. I assure him of the full co-operation of my delegation to that end. May I also express our deep appreciation to his predecessor, Mr. Peter Florin, for the exemplary manner in which he presided over the deliberations of both the Assembly's forty-second session and its third special session devoted to disarmament. I should also like to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General, Hr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, for his competent and excellent management of the affairs of the Secretariat of our Organization. We are particularly gratified at his devotion to the cause of international peace and security, demonstrated in his relentless efforts to ensure the peaceful resolution of regional conflicts in different parts of the world. We congratulate him on the outstanding Success he