unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (10/12/89)
UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 9
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
Mr. MUSA, Foreign Minister of Belize, then turned to the illicit
traffic in narcotics and expressed his country's commitment to
launching a concerted drive to eradicate the drug problem, and
to join forces in regional and international actions to put an
end to this menace to society.
While the cultivation and use of marijuana in Belize had abated
considerably, he said a new danger stemmed from the growing use
of crack and cocaine, as well as the use of Belize's territory
as a transshipment point for illegal drugs. His Government
proposed to work in collaboration with friendly Governments at
the interdiction level to eliminate this serious threat to
Belize. He expressed support to the related proposal of Jamaica,
calling for the establishment of a multinational anti-drug task
force within the United Nations system.
The global issue that at present held centre stage was the
environment, he said. In the coming decades, the world had to
deal more effectively with the problem of acid rain, ocean
pollution, nuclear and toxic wastes, ozone depletion and climate
change.
Belize, he went on, had its own concerns: its rain forests,
coral reef system, flora and fauna, were gifts of God "which we
have a duty to protect for generations of Belizeans yet
unborn". But a holistic approach was necessary. Poverty was
the ultimate environmental degradation, he said.
He said the Government of Belize supported public and private
initiatives in the promotion and defence of human rights, and
particularly the rights of the child and of women. Belize would
accede to and ratify the international Conventions on the Rights
of the Child, and on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women, and give practical effect to these
Conventions by the force of law.
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