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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 6
Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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The Assembly decided to allocate the question of Cyprus at an
appropriate time during the session.
It decided that a commemorative plenary meeting should be held
on Thursday, 26 October, to observe the tenth anniversary of the
adoption of the Vienna Programme of Action on Science and
Technology for Development.
The Assembly decided that item 148 entitled "Observer status for
the Council of Europe in the General Assembly" should be
considered directly in Plenary Meeting.
Also allocated to plenary was item 149 entitled "United Nations
decade of international law". In that connection, the Assembly
took note of the statement to the effect that the item might in
the future be referred to the Sixth Committee.
Next, the Assembly decided that item 154, Operation Lifeline
Sudan, should be considered directly in Plenary Meeting.
Turning to the list of items which the General Committee had
recommended for allocation to the First Committee, the Assembly
decided that the relevant paragraphs of the annual report of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, which is to be considered
directly in Plenary Meeting under item 14, should be drawn to
the attention of the First Committee in connection with its
consideration of item 63.
The Assembly next decided that item 151, education and
information for disarmament, should be allocated to the First
Committee.
The Assembly then approved the allocation of the 26 items
proposed for the First Committee in paragraph 33 of the report
of the General Committee.
(END OF TAKE 6)
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 6
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Continuing, Foreign Minister KRAVETS of the Ukraine said he
advocated broad and constructive interaction among all members
of the international community in eliminating hotbeds of tension
through political means on a just, honest and, consequently,
solid basis. All States, big or small alike, as well as
international organizations and, above all, the United Nations,
had an important contribution to make to that end.
The United Nations had not yet fully revealed its potential in
conflict prevention. The resources of the Security Council and
the possibilities of the Secretary-General were yet to be
utilized in full measure. The Ukraine shared the conclusions
contained in the report by the Secretary-General on the role and
significance of preventive diplomacy.
The international community needed to develop and improve the
United Nations' potential in monitoring, assessing and
predicting threats to the environment, as well as in providing
relief assistance in case of environmental emergencies. He
supported the idea of setting up in the framework of the United
Nations a centre for urgent environmental assistance. The
activities of that centre could bring conservational work of
international organizations to a higher level and would be a
practical contribution to mitigating environmental crises. The
conference on the environment and development, scheduled to be
held in 1992, would have to draft a world strategy for
environmental survival, he said.
Today, as never before, he continued, the correctness of a
State's historical direction was judged by the human dimension
of its domestic and foreign policy. One aspect of that was drug
abuse. Criminal drug-trafficking syndicates had undermined the
political and economic foundations of States and entangled
governmental and judiciary institutions in a cobweb of
corruption. Millions of people had lost their health and lives
to drugs. The international co-operation that had clearly
emerged had to be further developed. Close interaction and
co-ordinated efforts were needed in combating drug traffic and
abuse. The United Nations could take the next logical step in
that direction by proclaiming a decade for combating drug abuse
and illicit traffic in narcotic drugs. His country was prepared
to submit a draft resolution to be considered at the current
session of the Assembly.
In concluding, he said the Ukraine was prepared to co-operate
actively with all countries in strengthening the international
legal order and elaborating specific measures to enhance the
role of international law. His country's policy of asserting
the supremacy of international law was intimately related to the
process of creating a State based on a genuine rule of law. He
stood in full solidarity with all States that were striving to
attain high standards of legal protection of the individual.
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