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UN ASSEMBLY SESSION -- TAKE 3
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
Continuing, Mr. SERRANO CALDERA (Nicaragua) said Central America
was still living through the most serious crisis of its history
-- a crisis rooted in poverty, underdevelopment and
exploitation; the region's role as supplier of raw materials in
conditions of exploitation and misery, as a banana enclave and
zone of strategic and geopolitical interest, determined its
destiny for many decades.
Local oligarchies, he went on, allied to military establishments,
served as instruments of merciless foreign exploitation. Crude
and brutal military disctatorships were, for many decades, the
dominant political system in almost all the countries of the
region, he added.
The Central American crisis had not only been politicl and
military in nature, it was and continued to be economic and
social as well. Therefore, he said, alongside political
accords, all necessary support must be given to solve grave
economic problems and even more critical social problems.
Economic assistance for Central America must be given
immediately, without waiting for the political problem to be
resolved.
He said the commitment assumed by the five Central American
countries to have United Nations and Organization of American
States' (OAS) observers verify the fairness of electoral
processes, agreements on the demobilization of the
counter-revolutionary forces, as well as their voluntary
resettlement and repatriation, and the commitment not to attack
other countries undoubtedly constituted the essential points of
the regional peace process.
In compliance with these accords, Nicaragua had invited the
Secretaries- General of the United Nations and OAS to designate
commissions in Nicaragua to verify the entire electoral process
due to culminate 25 February 1990.
Observers from the European Parliament, as well as ex-Presidents
Jimmy Carter of the United States and Raul Alfonsin of
Argentina, had been invited, he said, adding the hope that other
Central American countries would proceed to invite the United
Nations and OAS to observe their respective electoral
processes.
All countries, he said, must respect the sovereign character of
this process, put a halt to any policies of electoral
interference or manipulation, and immediately provide support to
the economic effort required by this 58 6 October 1989
Current "so-called humanitarian aid" to the contras must cease,
he said, inasmuch as it served as logistical support and
prolonged the conflict. The CIAV should immediately establish
the mechanism for administering those funds for purposes of
demobilization and repatriation.
Nicaragua supported United Nations-supervised free elections in
Namibia; direct negotiations between Morocco and the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro
(POLISARIO); and appealed to Iran and Iraq to reach a rapid,
total and lasting solution to that conflict.
He upheld the right of the Afghan people to free determination,
supported the reunification of the Korean people and expressed
support for the resolution adopted at the extraordinary Arab
summit on Lebanon; supported the peace forces in Angola and
hoped for a prompt resolution of the conflict, as well as
efforts to obtain peace for Cambodia.
Nicaragua also endorsed the negotiations between the Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the Government of El
Salvador; and supported the right of the Panamanian people to
demand compliance with the Torrijos-Carter Treaties on the dates
agreed upon, as well as Panamanians' right to non-interference
in their internal affairs.
In the field of international law, Nicaragua and 14 other
countries had presented at the Foreign Ministers' Conference
held in Nicosia in September 1988, a draft resolution that had
been approved unanimously, calling for a special
ministerial-level meeting of the Movement of Non-Aligned Nations,
with the objective of proclaming the last decade of this century
and this millenium, the decade of peace and international law,
he said.
On international debt, he said there would be no peace and
development until the problem of foreign debt was resolved on a
global basis, by means of a restructuring of the system.
Bilateral solutions were "partial and fictitious" because they
left the underlying cause of the crisis intact.
Ecological destruction must be halted, he said. Regarding
environmental problems in Central America, the interest of
Nicaragua and other countries of the region was reflected in the
creation of the Central American commission on environment and
development, which had had its first meeting only days ago.
Drug trafficking must not be considered exclusively from the
perspective of production, he said, but must inevitably take
into account production, distribution, consumption and financial
mechanisms. The drug problem was part of the same structural
situation of relations between poor and highly developed
countries, he added.
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