UN General Assembly
1992

In addressing this Assembly for the first time, I should like, first, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, to carry out the pleasant duty of conveying to Mr. Ganev of Bulgaria our most earnest and warmest congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session, and to assure him of our cooperation with a view to achieving a successful outcome. We should like also to take this opportunity to pay a well-deserved tribute to Mr. Samir Shihabi of Saudi Arabia for the deft and skilful manner in which he led the work of the last session. To the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, we reiterate our most earnest congratulations on the outstanding manner in which he has been discharging his difficult responsibilities since he was elected head of our Organization. We also take this opportunity to welcome the positive and beneficial influence of the activities of our former Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, who was able to give our Organization a new