UN General Assembly
1993

I wish sincerely to congratulate the representative of Guyana on his unanimous election to the distinguished post of President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. This is an expression of great respect for him and his country. I cannot fail to note the enormous amount of hard and complicated work, deserving of the highest appreciation, that Mr. Stoyan Ganev, a representative of the friendly, fraternal Bulgarian people, carried out in that post. We welcome and congratulate the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Monaco, Andorra and Eritrea, which have this year become Members of the United Nations. The end of the twentieth century will undoubtedly go down in history as a time of tectonic shifts in international relations. With our own eyes we have seen the huge tectonic plate of the cold war, with its intense confrontation between two super-Powers and two ideologies, sink into the past. Living space for a new world order has been opened up. What will it look like? The end of the last century was filled with dire