Forty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly
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PresidentPeter Florin
Secretary-GeneralJavier Pérez de Cuéllar
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15 September 1987 – 19 September 1988
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.jpg) President of the 42nd General Assembly, Peter Florin | |
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| President | Peter Florin |
| Secretary-General | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
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The forty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 15 September 1987 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The president was Peter Florin,[1] previous Ambassador to the United Nations of the German Democratic Republic. During his presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, he was, according to the New York Times, "nicknamed 'Comrade Glasnost' by delegates, who s[aw] him as him a symbol of the modern Communist of the Gorbachev era.[2]
