for the month of April. I would like to convey my delegation's felicitations on your Presidency and to assure you of our co-operation in the fulfilment of your tasks. I would also like to take this opportunity to compliment your distinguished predecessors, Ambassador Azikiwe of Nigeria and Ambassador Wagenmakers of the Netherlands, for the extremely competent manner in which they guided us through the first part of our spring session. I would like to wish every success to our colleagues who have left us since the last time I addressed the Conference and to extend a warm welcome to our new colleagues, the Ambassadors of Argentina, Canada, China, Cuba, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela. We look forward to working in close co-operation with them in the future. We have entered the 1990s with a sense of both concern and expectation born of the many hopeful political developments that have taken place in recent years. I think we are all aware that we have reached a turning-point of major consequence. Apart from the significant relaxation in the political climate in recent years, we also have to squarely address the question of the longer-term expectations of mankind on the threshold of the twenty-first century, which we ourselves have to shape into reality. While the world is not a homogeneous whole, the recognition has to take hold more than it has that all its parts are fatefully bound together. It is our hope that the Conference on Disarmament will increasingly reflect this healthy multilateralism in its endeavours. Today, there is a perceptible movement away from the precipice of disaster for humankind and a constructive dialogue has been started. For this, we must pay tribute to the sagacity of the American and Soviet 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a speech or statement from a delegation to a conference, specifically the Conference on Disarmament. It touches on the themes of international cooperation, political developments, and the need for multilateralism, but does not explicitly discuss specific sectors like economy, environment, or industry. Instead, it seems to be focused on the broader issues of global politics and diplomacy.

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International relations, Politics