UN General Assembly
1988

﻿ It gives me great pleasure to extend to Mr. Dante Caputo the warmest greetings of my delegation on his election as the President of the forty-third session of the General Assembly. I am fully confident that under his wise and able leadership this Assembly will make substantive progress and further consolidate the gains achieved during the past year. May I also take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation to his predecessor, Mr. Peter Florin, for his leadership and the able and exemplary manner in which he discharged his duties as President of the forty-second session. A short time ago the world lost one of its outstanding statesman, General Mohammad Al-Hass, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, who not only contributed immensely to the cause of peace and justice in the world, but was also a pioneer of regional co-operation in South Asia# and a great supporter of freedom.