UNITED NATIONS •~------~-~------- A GeneralAs.embly PRUVISIONAL A1t5/PV.6 28September 1990 ENGLISH m Forty-fifth session GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROVISIONAL VERBATIM RECORD OFTHESIXTHMEETING HeldatHeadquarters, NewYork,onTuesday, 25September 1990,at10a.m. Eresident: later: later:Mr.deMAIleO Mr.PEERTBUM (Vice-President) Mr.deMARCO(Malta) (Mauritius) (Nalta) Scaleofassessments fortheapportionment oftheexpenses oftheUnitedNations [125](continued) Address byBisExcellency Mr.GeorgeVasoiliou, President oftheRepublicofCyprus General debate [9](continued) Statemonts m&<le1)y Mr.DeMichelis (It~l7) Mr.Shevardnadse (UnionofSovietSocialist Republica)Mr.Bou1ares (Tunisia) Mr.Asemoeh (Ghana)---------------------------------_..- Thisrecordconta!ne theoriginal te~tofspeeches delivered i"English andintorpretations ofspeeches intheotherlanguaqec. ThefinalteztwillbeprintedintheOfficial IIcordloftheGenItal ASS1mblr. Corrections shouldbesubmitted tooriginal speechel only.Theyshouldbasentunderthesignature ofamemberofthedelegation concerned, yithin OD&WlBt,totheChief,Official Reco~41 Bditing Section, Department ofConferenc. Services,roomDC2-150, 2UnitedNations Plaza,andincorporated inacopyoftherecord. 90-64106/A 1362V(B) Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryJVM/2 Al45/PV.6 2-5J themeeting wascalledtoorderat10.20a.m. AGENDA ITEM125(continued) SCALEOFASSESSMENTS FORTHEAPPORTIONMENT OFTHEEXPENSES OFTHEUNITED NATIONS (Article 19oftheCharter) ThePRESIDENT IBeforeca11iDq onthefirstspeaker, Ishouldliketo drawtheAssembly's attention tQdocument A/4S/S1S/Add.l, whichcontains aletter addressed tomebytheSecretary-General informing mothat,sincetheissuance of hiscomm~ication doted18September 1990,Guatemala hasmadethene~essary payment toreduceitsarrears belowtheamountspecified inArticle 19oftheCharter. MayItaJceitthattheGeneral Assembly dulytakesnoteofthisinformation? It.Jal!!sodecided. ADDRESS BYHISEXCELLENCY ttiR.GEORGEVASS!LIOU, PRESIDENT OFTHEREPUBLIC OFCYPRUS ~PRESIDENT: TheAssembly willfirsthearanaddress bythePresident oftheRepublic ofCyprus. Hr.GeorgeVassilicu, President oftheRepublic ofc!prus, wasescorted into theGenerol Assembly Hall. TbePRESIDENt: OnbehalfoftheGeneral Assembly, Ihovethehonourto welcome totheUnitedNotions thePresident oftheRepublic ofCyprus, Ris Excellency Mr.GeorqeVassiliou, ondtoinvitehimtoaddress theAssembly. Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library------------- BP/3Al45/PV.6 6 President YMSILIQUs Iwouldliketobeginbyoffering you,Sir,mywarmest congratulations onassuming thehighofficeofPresident oftheGeneralAssembly. ItisonlyfittingthatMalta,afellownon-aligned and United-Nations-mindedcountry, shouldbegiventheopportunity toguidethissessionoftheGeneral Assembly tosuccessful fruition. Yourelection addsweighttothetruththatallcountries, largeandsmall,havearoletoplayintheworldoftodayandthatoftomorrow. Iwouldalsoliketothanktheout-going President,Major-General JosephSarba,forhisskilful management oftheforty-fourth session,whichsawtheencouraging trendtowards consensus resolutions continue. Allowmetoechothesentiments ofprevious speakers andwelcome thePrincipality ofLiechtenstein, afellowsmallState,totheUnitedNations asitsl60thMember, andallowmealsotocongratulate ourfriends fromYemenontheirmomentous decision toreunitetheircountries, andtowelcome themhereasadelegation ofaunitedYemen,although thismeansthatwehaveoneMemberStateless. Iwouldalsoliketoexpress ourgreatappreciation endesteemfortheworkoftheSecretary-General,somuchofwhichIsconnected witbCyprus, whoseinstructiveandthoughtful reportwehavereadwithgreatinterel'lt. Wecommendhisstillandconnitment inhandling theaffairsoftheUnitedNationlll andinfurther promotingthegoa18andobjectives ofthisworldOrganisation, whichconstitutes themoraland80cialconscience ofmankind. Inthe12monthsainceIaddressed theforty-fourth General Asaembly, VGhavewitnessed &rapidanddramatic succession ofpolitical developmentsn Someofthosedevelopments havebeenpositive beyondexpectationl others,quitetheopposite. WhentakentogetherI!however, theyindicate thatweareatacrucial juacture inworldhistory. Like811suchturning-points, thecurrent oneinvolve. aperiodoftransition characterised bybothgreatopportuaities andgreatdifficulti ••• ----------------- Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryGF/3Al45/PV.6 7 (President vassiliou) Und~niably, themost impo~tant positive development ofthepast12monthshas beenthecomingtoanendofthecoldwarbetween BastandWest,whichwas effectively buriedintherubbleoftheBerlinNalllastwinter. Dialogue and co-operation arefastreplacing distrust andconfrontation. Theeuphoria generated bythesepomitive changes, however, hasalready received itsfir'stsharpblow.ThecrisisintheGulftriggered byIraq'sinvasion andoccupation ofneighbouring Kuwaitdemonstrates thatthelongroadtoatruly