UN General Assembly
1992

extend our best wishes to you for your own personal well-being and that of your family. Our greetings and warm welcomes go to the new States that have joined the United Nations family. As in a traditional family, the birth of a new member is a symbol of joy and hope: joy, because of the new-found vitality of our Organization; and hope, because of the new experiences, opinions and alternatives that there will be to enable us to resolve the problems and situations confronting the international community. Our Government, in the conviction that there can be no better unity than that which flows from and is based on diversity, has formally recognized all those States that are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and has initiated and established diplomatic relations with each of them; our Government hopes to be able to proceed in the same manner with each of the new Members of the United Nations family. On the political scene, the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly