people of Guinea, Because the late President Ahmed Sekou Toure was a true champion of African indepen- dence, freedom and unity, and also because he was an uncompromising advocate of non-alignment, his un- timely death is a great loss to the peoples of indepen- dent Africa and to the entire non-aligned movement. JO. Secondly, Mr. President, allow me to congrat- ulate you very warmly on your assumption of the stewardship of the Council for the month of April. Unfortunately, your presidency does not promise to be a quiet one, and therefore under you the Council will be extremely busy. Fortunately, however, your vast dip- lomatic experience and skill give us confidence that under your guidance the Council will be able to dis- charge its difficult responsibilities. I also wish to express through you my delegation’s complete satisfac- tion with the most exemplary and dignified manner in which the outgoing President, Mr. Arias Stella of Peru, guided the Council’s work in March. He certainly gave the Council the benefits of his wisdom and other excel- lent qualities of leadership and diplomacy. 51. Once again, in a matter of weeks, the Council’s attention is being urgently drawn to the dangerously deteriorating Central American situation, which threatens a real conflagration in that region. My delega- tion has already warned, on several occasions in the Council, that unless this critical situation is checked immediately it will have incalculable consequences for regional stability and international peace and security. . 52. We note with very serious concern that since the Council was apprised of the Central American situation by the representative of Nicaragua some three weeks ago the situation has become progressively more crit- ical and dangerous. The -activities of counter-revo- lutionaries against the civilian population and economic infrastructure of Nicaragua have become more nu- 
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