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vaccine against AIDS. She stressed that no AIDS strategy could
be effective if it permitted measures leading to discrimination.
With the dramatic spread of HIV among drug users, there was a
need to mobilize international and national efforts to stop
recruitment of new drug addicts. The fight against AIDS must be
based on intersectoral actions at the national and international
levels. She praised the work of the World Health Organization
(WHO) and other United Nations bodies, as well as
non-governmental organizations, in fighting AIDS.
EVZEN ZAPOTOCKY (Czechoslovakia) said the Council had a
significant role in strengthening co-operation between Member
States in the social and economic fields, and its revitalization
could play an important role. Its ability to make
recommendations on economic and social policy and its
co-ordination of United Nations work in those fields were of
great importance. The Council's debate this year had indicated
the urgent need for a more stable and predictable world economy,
and its resolution on the role of the United Nations in
monitoring problems of the world economy could achieve greater
security in international economic relations.
At the summer session, there had been a useful discussion on the
preparation of the international development strategy for the
fourth United Nations Development Decade and on the forthcoming
special session of the Assembly, he said. One of the
conclusions concerned the need for substantial contributions to
the solution of acute economic, social and ecological problems.
The net outflow of resources from developing countries prevented
their economic growth, and the United Nations should work to
prevent a worsening of the situation. Greater attention should
also be paid to the development of human resources. The debate
on the environment should provide a basis for preparations for
the 1992 conference on environment and development.
Statement by New Zealand on Women in Development
FRAN WILDE, Associate Minister for External Relations and Trade
of New Zealand, speaking also on behalf of Australia, said that
as the international community started to prepare an appraisal
of progress since the Nairobi Conference, it was clear that
movement in the three priority areas of equality, development
and peace had been slow, particularly in the area of
development. "When we reach out to touch the human face of
poverty, we discover it is, in a disproportionate way, a woman's
face", she said.
Some planners and politicians, she went on, said there could not
be any improvement in the status of women until macro-economic
problems were solved. Neglect of the women's role was at the
economic and social cost of all;
recognition of that role must be part of both the macro- and
micro-solutions. Australia and New Zealand were committed to the
advancement of the status of women, not only because they
recognized it as a fundamental human right but also as a
fundamental and inextricable link between the development of a
country and the work women did.
She supported the work of the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) as
well as of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the
Commission on the Status of Women and the United Nations
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). "Thanks to them,
mainstreaming was being taken seriously as a strategy for
change," she said. Reviewing measures taken by the Governments
of Australia and New Zealand, she said Australia placed special
emphasis on introducing gender disaggregated data collection and
analysis techniques into procedures for development of project
design and assessment. The international community must tap the
under-utilized potential of women as it sought solutions to the
problems of environment and sustainable development. "Women are
crucial to a total and effective development effort. Let us
make full use of their potential," she concluded.
HARRY CAHILL (United States) said his country appreciated the
condolences offered by the Chairman and other members of the
Committee. He in turn expressed sympathy to the Government of
China.
Referring to the Council's report, he said his Government
supported strong international efforts to control AIDS, with the
WHO as the central co-ordinating agency in the struggle against
that disease. The role of community-based non-governmental
organizations in the fight merited attention, as well as the
need for nations receiving bilateral and WHO assistance to
produce more of their own human resources in that effort.
Regarding human resources development, any proposals for new
monitoring bodies to track the course of that development should
be resisted. Instead, human resources development should be
reflected in all programmes.
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