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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3
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The Assembly further approved the General Committee's
recommendation that delegations be reminded of the utmost
importance of punctuality.
Concerning the rules for the general debate, the Assembly decided
that the practice of expressing congratulations in the General
Assembly Hall after a speech had been delivered would be
prohibited.
And it took note of the provisions in the General Committee
report regarding explanations of vote, right of reply and length
of statements.
The Assembly approved the recommendations contained in paragraph
14 of the General Committee's report concerning records of
meetings.
It went on to take note of provisions in the General Committee's
report of questions relating to programme budget questions, in
particular with regard to regulations governing Programme
Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of
Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation (annex to General
Assembly resolution 37/234).
The Assembly then took note of provision relating to special
conferences and recommendation 6 of the Committee on
Conferences, adopted by the Assembly in paragraph (b) of its
decision 34/405 and to recommendations 2 (d) and 4 of the Group
of High-level Intergovernmental Experts.
The Assembly decided that the following subsidiary organs of the
Assembly should be authorized to hold meetings during the
forty-fourth session: Advisory Committee on the United Nations
Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa;
Committee of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for South
Africa; Committee on Relations with the Host Country; Committee
on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People; Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and
Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa; Special
Committee against Apartheid; United Nations Council for Namibia;
Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The Assembly then took up section III of the report of the
General Committee, relating to the adoption of the agenda.
The Assembly first decided that item 74 of the draft agenda for
the session, (Liability for illegal transfer and/or use of
prohibited weapons and weapons of substances which cause
unnecessary human suffering), should not be included in the
agenda.
Next, the Assembly decided that item 122 of the draft agenda,
(Question of East Timor), should be deferred to the forty-fifth
session and the item included in that session's provisional
agenda.
The Assembly then decided that item 153 of the draft agenda,
entitled "Environmental protection of extraterritorial spaces
for present and future generations", be included on the agenda
as a sub-item of item 83 of the agenda (Development and
international economic co-operation).
(END OF TAKE 3)
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3
Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
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Continuing, Mr. DE MICHELIS, Foreign Minister of Italy, said it
would be tragic to succumb to inertia in the face of the drug
scourge. Countries like Colombia which, in order to uproot the
structures that threatened their sovereignty, had courageously
decided to break the pattern of complicity, must be helped. He,
therefore, supported the plan for a war on drugs, put forward
recently by Prime Minister Manley of Jamaica. It would also be
necessary, of course, to remove the roots of the evil by
providing farmers, particularly in Latin America, with the means
of planting alternative crops, especially in Bolivia, Peru and
Colombia.
On the problem of the environment, he said it would be
unforgivable if environmental concerns were allowed to widen the
gulf separating South and North. The Western countries, which
had enjoyed the greatest production success in history, were
calling for environmental measures, without overlooking their
own serious flaws. Nor were they unaware of the fears of the
poorer countries concerning the impact of environmental measures
on the pace of their own development. Here, too, the logic of
integration must prevail, with the joint elaboration of a code
of conduct, possibly through an international authority
responsible for drawing up and implementing a new law on the
environment. Today, it was more necessary than ever before to
envisage the legal definition of a new kind of crime -- the
crime against the natural environment.
No development was possible without eliminating, or at least
reducing, indebtedness, he said. The Brady Plan represented a
political turning point, but the world must go further and
reverse the unnatural flow of resources, still pouring into the
richer nations from the poor countries. Recent progress from
mere debt management to debt reduction had been made possible by
various case-by-case solutions. The conclusion of negotiations
between certain countries and creditor banks confirmed the
merits of that strategy. Italy intended to show the consistency
of its policy by immediately waiving repayment of development
loans amounting to some $2 billion and would, in the future,
conduct its co-operation with those countries exclusively by
means of grants. On the more general problem of development, he
said further consideration should be given to a new North-South
meeting, adequately structured and prepared, to initiate the
political dialogue eagerly awaited by the emerging countries.
"The new world is not just around the corner, but if we want to
start building it today we must make the United Nations the
chief instrument of global integration," he said. Particularly
out of place in a world moving towards gradual integration were
such resolutions, adopted in a different climate, as the one
equating Zionism with racism, which should be cancelled. Also,
United Nations bodies would be better balanced if the Soviet
Union were able to participate in international economic
institutions.
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
ABDELLATIF FILALI, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation
of Morocco, said that the world situation was on the threshold
of a more promising era, with dialogue and co-operation
prevailing over confrontation. The United Nations, which had
come of age, had become an irreplaceable instrument for leading
the international community to more concord justice and
democracy.
He had noted with interest the proposals and initiatives of a
number of countries to reduce arms in Europe. Given Morocco's
geo-political situation, he could not be indifferent to efforts
made that affected peace and security in the Mediterranean. In
that regard, he supported the concrete measures designed to
transform the Mediterranean into a zone of peace and
co-operation.
With regard to the Middle East, he said, he had hoped it would
benefit from the climate of international detente, but the
intransigence of Israel did not give grounds for optimism. A
peaceful political settlement to the situation, he stated, must
involve the following elements: a total withdrawal of Israel
from the occupied Arab territory, including Al-Quds; the
restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinians,
including the establishment of an independent state; and an
international peace conference on the Middle East, involving the
five permanent members of the Security Council and the
representatives of the Palestinian State. The intifadah had gone
on for two years, and showed that the Palestinian people would
spare no sacrifice to gain its dignity. It was time for Israel
to end its intransigence and respond to the reiterated appeals
for a peace conference.
In Lebanon, he said the Arab tripartite Committee had managed to
bring about a cease-fire and there were some grounds for
optimism. The international community was now duty-bound to
make efforts to help Lebanon achieve a national consensus so as
to allow the Lebanese people to exercise full sovereignty over
their own territory.
He went on to say that the African continent was on the verge of
an historical event. The last bastion of colonialism was
crumbling in Namibia. Difficulties might yet come up, but the
road could no longer be blocked. He believed that the
independence process would unfold in the manner that all
peace-loving people wanted it to. On the other hand, the
situation in South Africa was still grave. The international
community, while it viewed with interest recent developments in
South Africa, should remain vigilant until the apartheid system
had been eliminated.
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