unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (08/14/89)
The two existing facilities, namely, the Naval Air Station at St.George's and
the King's Point Naval Station, are operated by the United States Navy,
according to the paper, which also notes that the two together comprise about
one tenth of Bermuda's total area.
The working paper states that the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration of the United States (NASA) also maintains a tracking station
on Cooper's Island as part of its world-wide space flight tracking and data
network. According to the paper, it was reported that a large reduction in
the military presence of the Soviet Union in the North Atlantic was underway,
which would affect submarine and other military activities around Bermuda
where Soviet naval activities were allegedly taking place.
Statements on Namibia
MILISLAV PAIC (Yugoslavia) said serious doubts had been cast on the
November elections in Namibia as a result of recent events there. Acts of
intimidation against the Namibian people had been carried out by elements of
the so-called Koevoet operating within the South West Africa Police. In
addition, the electoral law proposed by the Administrator-General of the
Territory was extremely complicated and raised the possibility of electoral
fraud. A slanderous campaign against the South West Africa People's
Organization (SWAPO) had been orchestrated by the South African-controlled
mass media in Namibia. It was up to the Security Council to ensure the
unconditional implementation of Security Council resolution 435.
Turning to other questions, he welcomed the peace plan between Morocco
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro
(POLISARIO) and said the appointment of a United Nations technical team for
the Western Sahara would facilitate a referendum on self-determination for the
people of that country. His country supported a negotiated solution on the
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and called for the decolonization of the remaining
Non-Self-Governing Territories in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as well as
in the Caribbean. Geographic size, location and population should in no way
impede the universal implementation of the Assembly's 1960 Declaration on
decolonization.
AMIN RIANOM (Indonesia) said the significant political initiatives and
developments that had taken place since last year towards the settlement of
the Namibian problem would require, as never before, the unity and solidarity
of the international community in fulfilling its sacred trust to the people of
Namibia. It was imperative that the Namibia settlement plan's provisions
relating to the Territory's police force were fully complied with. Likewise,
all Namibian refugees should be enabled immediately to return to Namibia in
dignity and safety and provided with the necessary humanitarian assistance and
aid. The electoral process should be free of fraud and manipulation and the
Namibian people assured that they would be able to exercise their franchise
without fear and intimidation. The right of the people and their legitimate
representatives to engage in political activity and to mobilize support should
be safeguarded. His country had provided 50 police officers for service as
police monitors with United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG).
Speaking on the question of activities of foreign economic and other
interests impeding the implementation of the General Assembly Declaration on
decolonization, he said the case of Namibia knew no parallel with regard to
the extent of its pervasive plunder by the illegal occupier. That plunder had
been aided and abetted by unscrupulous transnational corporations, and it was
imperative that a newly established independent Namibia was enabled to
exercise its sovereign economic rights and develop its economy in line with
the choice of the Namibian people themselves. Transnational corporations
operating in the Territory had an obligation, without prejudice to any future
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