UN General Assembly
1982

behalf of the Government and people of Senegal, on his election as Secretary-General. For almost a year now, Mr. Perez de Cuellar, through his repeated initiatives and courageous actions, has been engaged in the promising beginning of work that Will be remembered in history as particularly positive for the peace and security of the world. 86. The thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly is opening at an especially disquieting time in international affairs with an increase and intensification of hotbeds of tension and various conflicts as well as an ever-worsening imbalance in political and economic relations among nations. Thus relations between the major Powers are steadily deteriorating, the prospects for effective disarmament seem to be receding and throughout the world the problems dividing peoples are multiplying dangerously. Moreover, progress in reorganizing the world economy on a more just and agreed basis is perilously slow. 87. We must therefore determine how to use the framework, structures and procedures provided us by the United Nations to improve, in peace and stability, the situation of the world.