UN General Assembly
1992

Let me begin by expressing my sincere appreciation to His Excellency Mr. Samir Shihabi for his wise administration and leadership of the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly. It is also my great pleasure to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session and to wish him a successful term. I also want you to know that we, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are deeply grateful to the United Nations for all of its efforts to achieve peace and for providing humanitarian assistance under very difficult circumstances. The courageous troops of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), with the tenacious leadership of Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, deserve special recognition and gratitude. As is well known, I come from a country besieged by barbaric aggression. But, I must emphasize, I have come here today not to talk of war but to offer peace. It is an offer of a nation born of ethnic coexistence rather than ethnic cleansing. It is an offer of a multicultural and multi-religious Bosnia and