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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 10
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
Foreign Minister SHAMUYARIRA of Zimbabwe went on to say that in
the final weeks of the election campaign, the desperation of the
anti-SWAPO forces in Namibia was becoming evident daily. Urgent
action must be taken to strengthen United Nations Transition
Assistance Group (UNTAG) police units and to increase the
projected electoral monitors. Meanwhile, the United Nations
must prepare well-thought-out plans for post-election Namibia.
Zimbabwe was ready to contribute to the process of clarifying
the United Nations role during the transition period following
the elections, he said.
In South Africa itself, he continued, apartheid remained firmly
entrenched. Talk of reform so far remained mere talk. The
liberation movements had formulated an imaginative negotiating
platform which had been adopted by the Organization of African
Unity (OAU) Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa as well as by
the Non-Aligned Summit Conference in Belgrade, but Pretoria so
far had remained mum on that proposal. He appealed to those
friends of Pretoria opposing sanctions to bring meaningful
pressure on Pretoria by applying sanctions. Addressing the
international banking community, he said 1990 was critical for
the apartheid regime. Rescheduling its debt should not be an
automatic right. Let it be a favour granted as an inducement
for meaningful change in South Africa.
He appealed to outsiders to stop supporting rebel elements in
Mozambique and National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola (UNITA) in Angola in order to give African peace
initiatives a chance. "We need some of the promised gentle
kindness of the new thinking to spread to our region as well",
he said.
Expressing support for the right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination, he deplored "the heavy-handed methods of the
occupation forces against the aggrieved and heroic Palestinian
nation". On Central America he welcomed the decision to disband
the contras and the scheduled elections in Nicaragua, and on
Afghanistan he urged all outside parties to stop supplying arms
to the opposing sides, and called upon the Afghan people to
negotiate in a spirit of national reconciliation.
On Kampuchea he welcomed the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces, and
urged the concerned parties to negotiate the differences among
themselves. He also said the Korean people should be left alone
to negotiate their reunification without outside interference.
On Cyprus he appealed to both parties to co-operate with the
Secretary-General in the search for a lasting solution. Last
year, he noted, the General Assembly had declared a decade for
the eradication of the retrograde system of colonialism, and he
repeated the same call.
Motivated by the desire to strengthen peace and the rule of law,
he said, the non-aligned countries had convened at The Hague in
June, a Conference on Peace and the Rule of Law in International
Affairs. An important initiative had been taken by the
Conference to have the General Assembly declare, during the
current session, a decade of international law from 1990 to 1999,
leading to a Third Hague Peace Conference. He urged all Member
States to support that initiative by the non-aligned countries.
Acting President TOM ERIC VRAALSEN (Norway) adjourned the meeting
at 12:45 p.m.
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