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Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 2

     Posting Date: 09/30/89        Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
     UNITEX Network, USA           ISSN: 1043-7932

     Mr. DE MICHELIS, Foreign Minister of Italy, went on to say
     integration must be sought gradually and pragmatically, wherever
     and whenever it could be accomplished by suitable means.  For
     that reason, Italy welcomed and supported regional groupings --
     the existing ones to which it belonged and those still at the
     embryonic stage, yet full of promise.  The new trend towards
     forming regional associations, on a direct and immediate basis,
     without jeopardizing the equilibrium of States belonging to
     different international groups should be welcomed.

     He said the survival of the planet called for the strenghtening
     of multilateral institutions, for they could help the world
     reorient its perceptions of danger and decide on the
     reallocation of resources, which was especially important when
     the amounts wasted on the arms race were considered.  For
     example, the deterioration of the environment was a problem that
     transcended ideologies and differences in political systems.  It
     was not just a specific consequence of an obsession with
     profits, but was also found where public opinion exerted
     insufficient influence and where technological backwardness
     damaged nature in ways that had yet to be fully explored.

     "What can be done in a world that is changing so rapidly before
     our very eyes"?  he asked.  Western Europe must continue its
     progress towards a new supranational identity.  Many things
     depended both within and outside the continent, on the success
     or failure of that revolutionary project.  The European
     Community must make an effort, in the years to come, to identify
     new forms of co-operation, particularly in Central Europe and
     the southern shores of the Mediterranean.  Central Europe was
     the ideal place for the formation of political, economic and
     cultural ties, in such a way as to smooth the path of
     continental integration.

     During the month of September, with its bitter anniversaries for
     Europe, it was significant that in Poland and Hungary an
     omnipresent totalitarian power structure should progressively
     make way for alternative methods of governments.  Nor could the
     European Community turn a blind eye to its southern borders.  If
     the Mediterranean was to become an area of permanent
     instability, Europe and the African countries would have to
     tackle jointly the problems of trade, investments and
     immigration, also with a view to promoting sufficient
     development to root labour forces in their country of origin.

     (END OF TAKE 2)

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