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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 5
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The Assembly then turned to the allocation of items.
Dealing first with items recommended by the General Committee
for consideration in plenary meeting, the Assembly decided to
refer to the Fourth Committee all the chapters of the report of
the Special Committee on decolonization relating to specific
Territories, so that the Assembly might deal in plenary meeting
with the question of the implementation of the Declaration as
whole.
The Assembly agreed that, in connection with item 28 on the
"Policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa", the
item should be considered directly in plenary meeting, on the
understanding that the representatives of the Organization of
African Unity and of national liberation movements recognized by
that organization would be permitted to participate in the
discussion in plenary meeting and that organizations and
individuals having a special interest in the question would be
permitted to be heard by the Special Political Committee.
The Assembly decided that item 35 on the question of the Falkland
Islands (Malvinas), should be considered directly in plenary
meeting, on the understanding that bodies and individuals having
an interest in the question would be heard in the Fourth
Committee.
The Assembly then turned to the recommendation of the General
Committee on the allocation of item 36, entitled "Question of
Namibia". The PRESIDENT said that the General Committee had
decided to take note of all the statements concerning this item
made at the meeting and to recommend that the General Assembly
take note of the statement by the Secretary-General in paragraph
40 of document A/BUR/44/1.
ROBERT F. VAN LIEROP (Vanuatu) said that a supplementary phrase
should be added to the report of the General Committee to allow
for hearings of the organizations concerned on that issue in the
Fourth Committee.
The Assembly then approved the recommendation, as expanded by
the representative of Vanuatu and bearing in mind the statement
by the Secretary-General in paragraph 40 of document A/BUR/44/1.
(END OF TAKE 5)
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 5
Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
Mr. GENSCHER, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of
Germany, went on to say that President Bush's statement that the
United States was ready to destroy over 80 per cent of its
existing chemical weapon stocks before the conclusion of a
chemical weapons convention, provided that the Soviet Union
reduced its chemical weapons to the same level, was unprecedented
in the disarmament negotiations.
The recent Canberra Conference also made an important
contribution in support of the Geneva negotiations, he said,
calling for control of the trade in chemical substances and
facilities that were suitable for the manufacture of chemical
weapons. Developing countries spent $200 billion on military
purposes every year -- four times the official development aid
they receive.
On matters of human rights, he called for the appointment of a
United Nations high commissioner for human rights, the
establishment of an international court of human rights and the
abolition of capital punishment.
International terrorism and international drug crimes were an
aggression against human dignity, he said. The drug problem
demanded a common fight against illicit drug trafficking;
co-operation among all countries in combating across-border
illicit drug trafficking and elimination of the social causes of
drug dependence in the consumer countries.
Concerning Central America, he said that all Governments
interested in the fate of Central America had endorsed the
Esquipulas peace agreement. His Government supported the
contribution made by the United Nations to this process.
On other matters, he said, the Western Contact Group on which
his Government served, had initiated the independence process in
Namibia and participated in shaping it. In the Middle East, the
objective continues to be a peaceful settlement that guaranteed
the right of all States in the region, including Israel, to live
within secure boundaries and enable the Palestinian people to
exercise their right to self-determination.
The suffering of the Lebanese nation must be ended through a
political solution, he said. The cease-fire brought about by
the Arab League's Committee was an encouraging signal.
On the debt crisis, he said, it could only be resolved by joint
action of everyone concerned. He called for the debts of the
least developed countries to be cancelled, as his Government had
done.
His Government would do its utmost to support environmental
activities, especially the United Nations conference which the
General Assembly is to decide at this session, he said. The
industrial nations must make a special contribution through the
transfer of ecologically sound technology and through financial
support for environmental projects in the developing countries.
(END OF TAKE 5)
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 5
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
V.A. KRAVETS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ukraine, said
the wheel of history could not be reversed. "Inviolability of
the post-war borders constituted the foundation of peaceful
relations in Europe." He shared that clear and unambiguous
position with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal
Republic of Germany, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. The time had come
for specific actions that would allow activation of the
mechanism of political and legal restraint, as well as the
peace-making potential of non-military components of security.
The United Nations should play a major role in that. He
supported the call for early consideration by the Geneva
Conference on Disarmament of the problem of a comprehensive
nuclear-test ban. The proposals to extend the 1963 Treaty to
underground tests was a possible way of addressing that
problem. A mutual Soviet-United States moratorium on all
nuclear tests could serve as a prelude to a verifiable
comprehensive nuclear-test-ban agreement.
Should the arms race extend to outer space, he continued,
international security would be undermined unpredictably, and
the threat of global catastrophe would increase immeasurably.
Outer space must remain peaceful and open for international
co-operation in exploring it for the benefit of all nations.
There should be no areas closed to disarmament talks, he said. A
comprehensive approach to solving disarmament problems appeared
to be most productive. The socialist countries, members of the
Warsaw Treaty Organization, saw the Vienna negotiations'
immediate goal as establishing in a first-stage agreement common
ceilings, equal for both alliances, on the aggregate numbers of
troops and amounts of main types of armaments in Europe. New
levels would be considerably lower than the current lowest levels
of either side. Drastic reductions of armed forces and
conventional armaments in Europe in the next few years, coupled
with a phased reduction and, eventually, elimination of tactical
nuclear weapons would serve as an effective means of reducing
the risk of war.
He favoured extending confidence-building, observation and
limitation measures to cover all kinds of military activities,
including those of navies and air forces. No types of armed
forces or armaments should be exempted from the negotiating
process. To ensure international security, an effective
verification regime was necessary. It should embrace all aspects
of the disarmament process, leading to the establishment of a
comprehensive disarmament verification system. The United
Nations should make a substantial contribution to its
elaboration. The Security Council should seek to ensure
security at the lowest possible levels of armament in individual
States which would be sufficient for defence and insufficient
for offence.
He emphasized the importance of the United Nations in developing
a global strategy for channelling resources released from
armaments towards social and economic development. Disarmament
should become a complementary resource for raising peoples'
living standards and give them tangible benefits. The
international public should also exert still more vigorous
efforts in the context of the World Campaign for Disarmament.
Continuing, Mr. KRAVETS said the world needed a policy that would
take into account realities of the nuclear age to make headway
in attaining a political settlement of existing crises. "We
need a new thinking that would have us view the world not in the
light of confrontation and a 'balance of forces', but in the
light of a 'balance of interests'."
He was appreciative of the United Nations' contribution to
drafting and concluding the Geneva Accords on Afghanistan. The
Organization should continue to play a major role in ending the
bloodshed and attaining political solutions to Afghanistan's
affairs. The situation around Afghanistan could be best settled
through an international conference to be attended by
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, China, the United States, the
Soviet Union and the country that was serving as Chairman of the
Non-Aligned Movement. It would be convened to reach agreements
ending supplies of weapons to the warring parties and
guaranteeing Afghanistan's status as a demilitarized and neutral
State, friendly towards its neighbours. The provisions would be
included in the country's new constitution. Such an approach was
fully in keeping with the imperative and spirit of the times.
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