a special welcome to Mr. Illueca, the Foreign Minister of Panama, which is a member of the Council, to Mr. Costa Mindez, the Foreign Minister of Argentina, and to Mr. Zambrano Vclasco, the Foreign Ministet of Venezuela. 6. Mr. President, 1 should like to congratulate you on the skill and diplomatic flair with which you are discharging your functions at a particularly decisive and critical time both for the United Nations and for world peace. I am especially grateful for the prompt- ness with which you have been informing us, the members of the Council. about the grave crisis which is developing in the Malvinas Islands. 7. I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his good offices in the conciliatory mission he has been carrying out with the utmost diligence, sparing neither effort, firmness, skill nor perseverance. My country also wishes to place on record the debt of gratitude we owe the Secretary-General, because we believe that had it not been for his efforts and tire- less exertions the situation would have been far more critical and the positions of the two parties to the con- flict would have been even further removed from the objective Spain desires: the cessation of hostilities and a negotiated understanding on the substance of the problem. Unfortunately, the Secretary-General himself felt that it was his painful duty to inform the President of the Council that the negotiations he had undertaken with the Council’s support offered no prospect of an end to the crisis or preventing intensifi- cation of the conflict. 8. The Government of Spain deeply deplores the fact that it was impossible to arrive at an understanding and a contractual arrangement which, in strict applica- tion of the doctrine of decolonization, would from the outset have spared us violence by making possible 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a diplomatic statement, discussing a conflict between two countries (Argentina and others) over the Malvinas Islands. The language used is formal and diplomatic, with expressions of gratitude and condolences. The focus is on the actions of the United Nations, the Secretary-General, and the countries involved in the conflict. The text does not mention economic or social issues, but rather international relations and diplomacy.

**Category**
International relations, Humanitarian aid and relief