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UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 5
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
Continuing, the Foreign Minister of Qatar, Mr. AL-ATTIYAH, said
that elimination of the apartheid regime in South Africa was a
prime responsibility for the United Nations and the
international community. The limited measures enacted by the
Pretoria authorities, in an effort to win over world public
opinion, could only serve to perpetuate that evil regime and
further delay the final objective.
"The international community is confronted with two major
challenges which threaten its very structure and put at risk the
achievements of human civilization: the pollution of the
environment, on the one hand, and the drug crisis, on the
other." The dangerous effects of those two phenomena were
global and affected equally the industrial countries and the
countries of the third world. Although the responsibility fell
upon all, the industrial countries carried a larger burden in
that regard, commensurate with their financial and technological
resources. Qatar supported the idea of holding, in 1992, an
international conference on environment and development. At the
same time, he called for more international efforts to deal with
the problem of narcotic drugs, "which threatens the very
foundations of our civilization", he said.
He said he was pleased with the improvement in the relations of
the Soviet Union and the United States, illustrated by, among
other things, the conclusion of the intermediate-range missile
Treaty. It was a welcome step in the long road towards putting
an end to the nuclear arms race. In that regard, he attached
particular importance to establishing nuclear-weapons-free
zones, particularly in the Indian Ocean and in the Middle East.
He was concerned about Israel's nuclear capability, particularly
in light of its aggressive tendency and heightened by Israel's
refusal to accede to the non-proliferation Treaty and subject
its nuclear facilities to international inspection. Israel's
co-operation in that field with the Pretoria regime was also a
matter of concern.
Political relaxation could not be solidified without economic
relaxation, he said. Unfortunately, the economic crisis
remained and, if anything, was getting worse. There was a
widening gap, economically and technologically speaking, between
the developing countries and the industrial countries. While
the economies of the majority of developing countries were
stagnant or in decline, the major concern of the industrial
countries was to achieve growth without inflation.
A wide-ranging North-South dialogue, aimed at establishing forms
of economic co-operation beneficial to all, would be both
necessary and useful, he said. He hoped the extraordinary
session of the General Assembly scheduled for early next year
would provide a forum for the resumption of such a dialogue. He
was confident that the session would provide a strong impetus to
international co-operation in the field of economic development.
The United Nations was a principal forum for all dialogue and
negotiations relating to such co-operation.
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