UN General Assembly
1980

﻿Mr. President, first of all I should like to congratulate you most sincerely on your election to the highest office in the United Nations and to commend you on your impressive inaugural address. Your election is for us a token of recognition of six years' constructive work as the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations. We also feel that it can be seen as a recognition of the active participation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the world Organization. This participation is of great value to our policy, which is directed towards peace. 79. I should like to express our thanks to your predecessor, Ambassador Salim, one of the great representatives of the African continent. 80. I am also very pleased to be able to welcome Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a new Member State of the world Organization.