UN General Assembly
1992

Let me congratulate you. Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forth-seventh session. I wish you much success and promise you full support. I thank your predecessor, Mr. Shihabi, for guiding the General Assembly to success at its forth-sixth session. The past year weakened further the illusion that the end of the cold war would facilitate a speedy and effective solution of problems that built up during the post-war period. It has been a sobering year, during which we have been involved in the gradual process of getting acquainted with the possible. Sometimes we see euphoria replaced by total pessimism and little faith. While the era of bipolarity is over and democracy is winning, many conflicts remain unresolved, and a new generation of conflicts is beginning. In addition to conflicts with which we have dealt routinely, but unsuccessfully, over the years, we are now witnessing a great variety of wars. The number of zones of conflict gets larger and larger. Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Bosnia and