UN General Assembly
1991

I want also to congratulate the other members of the Bureau who, I am certain, will do all they can to help you carry out your weighty responsibilities. We convey our appreciation and gratitude to your predecessor. His Excellency Mr. Guido de Marco of Malta, who presided over the work of the forty-fifth session of the General Assembly with great ability, dynamism and devotion. He was a credit to the United Nations and to his country. Finally, I convey my sincere thanks to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Javier Peres de Cuellar, for his untiring and successful efforts to preserve world peace and security. The Republic of Burundi joins other delegations in congratulating and welcoming the new members of the United Nations family: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.