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STRENGTHENING UNITED NATIONS PEACE-MAKING ROLE
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
The Sixth Committee (Legal) this morning continued its
examination of ways of strengthening the peace-making role of
the United Nations, including proposals for the use of
fact-finding missions in situations threatening international
peace and security and the resort to commissions of good
offices, mediation or concilation.
Statements were made by representatives of Uruguay, Soviet Union,
Libya, Cameroon, Egypt, Oman, Democratic Yemen, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Spain and Peru.
A representative of the Asian-African Legal Consultative
Committee also addressed the meeting.
The Committee will continue its discussion when it meets again at
3 p.m. today, 6 October.
Committee's Work Programme
The Sixth Committee (Legal) meets this morning for further
consideration of the report of the Special Committee on the
Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the
Role of the Organization (document A/44/33). The Committee also
will discuss the question of the peaceful settlement of disputes
between States, including the use of fact-finding missions and
the resort to a commission for good offices, mediation and
conciliation.
Statements Made
FRANK X. NJENGA, of the Asian-African Legal Consultative
Committee (AALCC), briefed the Committee on the organization's
work, and said it was following with keen interest the
progressive development of international law relating to the
status and treatment of refugees. It proposed, in collaboration
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
to organize at New Delhi in February 1990, a workshop on the
definition of refugees. The AALCC was promoting wider use of
the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and also
following the work of the International Law Commission.
On environment, he said AALCC had followed closely developments
in the control of transboundary movement of hazardous and toxic
wastes and their disposal, and planned to discuss the issue at a
meeting of legal advisers of the organization's member States.
Other subjects the organization had been involved with included
international trade law, law of the sea and international
terrorism. On the latter subject, it supported the initiative
taken by the General Assembly to call for the views of
Governments on the need to contain international terrorism and
to differentiate it from people's genuine struggle for freedom
in pursuit of their inalienable right of self-determination. Any
proposal to hold an international conference on the issue was a
step in the right direction, he added.
SANTIAGO ROMPANI (Uruguay) recalled of international initiatives
aimed at ensuring peace and security dating back to the
celebration in 1955 of the United Nations' tenth anniversary.
There had, none the less, been a series of events that
fortunately had not resulted in a third world war; but no less
than 15 areas of conflict, war or danger of war had been
detected. Yet war was by no means the only threat to humanity,
as had been stated by statesmen such as the President of
Colombia.
Proposals in the report of the Special Committee were genuinely
important he said. The Charter, moreover, spoke of peace, it
spoke of security. But other problems within the Charter needed
correction besides the current danger of war, such as the
deterioration of counter-trade, the burden of foreign debt,
armament in general and nuclear armament in particular.
VLADIMIR F. PETROVYSKY, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet
Union, said the international community must devise a new model
of security based on political and legal guarantees aimed at
international co-operation. In so doing, it would be necessary
to move from "deterrence based on arms to verifiable,
transparent, political and legal deterrence". Bilateral
relations
were also acquiring a legal dimension with the emerging
co-operation between the Soviet Union and the United States
being also extended to the legal sphere. The two countries had
recently adopted a document agreeing to conditions relating to
the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.
That agreement, he said, marked the start in a practical
realization of the Soviet Union's proposal last year in the
United Nations on the elaboration of mutually agreed conditions
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