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Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1
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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)

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