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UN HIGHLIGHTS: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY & UN PRESS RELEASES
SECRETARY-GENERALS OF UN AND OAS DISCUSS CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE AGREEMENTS
Plans for verification of the recent Central American peace agreement,
reached by the Presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and
Nicaragua, were taken a stage further today, at a meeting in New York of
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and the Secretary-General of the
Organization of American States (OAS).
In the terms of the Joint Plan agreed by the Central American Presidents
at their meeting in Tela, Honduras, the Secretaries-General decided to
establish the International Support and Verification Commission (to be known
as CIAV), and they discussed the co-ordination of their efforts for the
execution and implementation of the Tela Agreement.
That agreement relates to the "voluntary demobilization, repatriation or
relocation of members of the Nicaraguan resistance and their families, as well
as assistance in the demobilization of all those involved in armed actions in
the countries of region, when they voluntarily seek it". It was envisaged
that the process would begin on 6 September.
UNEP HEAD DISCUSSES ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF OZONE LAYER AGREEMENT
A working group of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on the
implementation of the agreement for the protection of the world's ozone layer
has been meeting in Nairobi to discuss financial measures to help developing
countries play their full part in carrying out the agreement.
The agreement -- the Montreal Protocol -- was signed in 1987, with the
aim of reducing by 50 per cent in the next 10 years the use of those chemicals
which "eat up" the ozone layer.
At the Nairobi meeting of parties to the Protocol, the Executive Director
of UNEP, Mostafa K. Tolba, said that unfortunately only a few developing
countries had so far ratified the Protocol, and this was because they lacked
the resources to meet its requirements. Equitable financial mechanisms were
therefore absolutely crucial, he said, to ensure global participation in the
effort to protect the ozone layer, and also to assure developing nations that
global environmental protection was consistent with their legitimate
development needs.
UN OFFICE IN VIENNA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OF VIENNA INTERNATIONAL
CENTRE
The tenth anniversary of the opening of the United Nations office at the
Vienna International Centre was marked at a ceremony attended by Austrian
leaders and senior United Nations officials.
The Foreign Minister of Austria, Alois Mock, said the presence of the
United Nations had considerably enhanced Austria's importance in the
international community. At the ceremony (on Wednesday, 23 August) which also
marked the opening of an exhibition of a new series of United Nations stamps,
Mr. Mock noted Austria's location, between east and west, and stressed the
importance of Austria's permanent neutrality, its stability and its
participation in United Nations peace-keeping missions. Such missions, he
said, were a practical form of "peace policy", and no fewer than 25,000
Austrians had served in them.
Among other speakers, Austrian Federal President Kurt Waldheim, a former
Secretary-General of the United Nations, said the cosmopolitan nature of the
city of Vienna had been given a contemporary expression by the contribution of
the Vienna International Centre. He said Austria hoped the process of reform
in the East would be successful; if it failed, the effects would be
incalculable, not only for geographically and politically exposed nations such
as Austria, but for the world community as a whole.
The United Nations Director-General in Vienna, Margaret J. Anstee, said
the 10 years since the opening of the Centre had not been easy for the United
Nations and other international bodies. But fortunately, in the last two
years, there had been a turn for the better, with the easing of super-Power
tensions and some successes after the quiet patient work of several decades.
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