Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org From: unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) Newsgroups: misc.headlines.unitex Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1 Message-ID: <3254@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:57:34 GMT Sender: news@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 71 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1 Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989 UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932 The General Assembly meets this morning to continue its general debate. The President of the Assembly, JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria), called the meeting to order at 10:04 a.m. He first drew the Assembly's attention to document A/44/535/Add.1, in which the Secretary-General informed the President of the Assembly that El Salvador had made the necessary payments to reduce its arrears below the amount specified in Article 19 of the Charter. GIANNI DE MICHELIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, said that in the next few years the world community would be required to choose between two policies, "integration" or "disintegration". Choice of the former would mean a policy of co-operation, while the latter would tend to aggravate conflicts and tensions. The future depended upon the ability, through integration, to reconstruct "one world". He said that with the increasing renunciation of the use of force in international relations, the search for areas of complementarity and convergence was intensifying. The world was emerging from a period of appallingly destructive and tragically pointless wars. Wars could no longer be won, as had been seen in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. On the other hand, the increasing uselessness of military strength for purposes of prestige and domination had helped to start a promising trend towards co-operation among people. That would determine the success of the important negotiations on disarmament, ranging from talks between the major Powers on the reduction of nuclear weapons to multilateral discussions on the total elimination of chemical weapons. "Integration is achieved through the exercise of freedom, democracy and pluralism -- in essence, the rights first codified at the interanational level by the United Nations", he continued. Freedom, complementarity and solidarity must be the guiding principles of a new coexistence. Since the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Vienna, it was harder to evade the obligation to respect fundamental freedoms by invoking national sovereignty, for verification measures were being perfected, just as they were in weapons control. However, the logic of integration was negated when countries imported technology, while ignoring the fact that economic progress and democracy was a two-sided coin. And then there were cases where, on the pretext of alleged racial differences, unnatural segregation measures were imposed, and human beings were denied full recognition of their dignity, even though some changes in the right direction could be discerned in South Africa. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, each of the contending parties might be tempted to resolve the issue by disregarding the other side and its rights. (END OF TAKE 1) * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- Patt Haring | United Nations | FAX: 212-787-1726 patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information | BBS: 201-795-0733 patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange | (3/12/24/9600 Baud) -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-